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Sept. 2, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 2, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yes, indeed, America's anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man filling in.
Great uh great to be with you.
And uh I should say, before we go any further, uh H.R. asked me to mention that we have been deluged by by uh American road flaggers, members of the flagging community, who uh who thought that I was disparaging uh disparaging flagging.
I was not disparaging flagging.
I'm in favor, in fact, of a a uh flag disparaging amendment to the uh Constitution, making it illegal to disparage flaggers.
Um but uh my point was a a simple one that uh that the idea of investing in flagging school to train more flaggers for unnecessary highway projects, and there's uh if you notice, if you drive around at the moment, more and more of every state is dug up than it's ever been before.
Uh I was disparaging that as a means of stimulating uh the economy.
You know why?
I drive uh no interest unless you happen to be in that part of the world, uh but uh I drive a lot from uh Woodsville, New Hampshire to Littleton, New Hampshire.
And uh it's it doesn't take long.
It's uh twenty miles, doesn't normally empty empty road, doesn't take you long.
Uh uh around about the time of the stimulus bill, shortly after that, a stimulus project, uh an entirely unnecessary uh repair on a minor stretch of road slowed up uh traffic there.
What's it doing?
It's preventing economically productive members of society getting from A to B quicker.
Uh the idea that you can use flagging school and thereby an increased uh in the flagging community and there for an increase in unnecessary highway projects as a way of stimulating uh the economy is uh is uh entirely preposterous.
And that's why uh as you drive around this summer, you'll notice that there are these ridiculous uh putting America back to work signs uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh just ahead of every little bit of uh a pathetic bit of scarified pavement uh all over every state uh in the land.
This is not uh going to do anything uh to stimulate the economy.
And in fact, it is entirely ridiculous that the the idea that uh a national government should be controlling the spending on highway projects uh on remote bits of rural highway uh in fifty states across the land.
That's no way that's no way to organize it.
You know, people often miss the point when they when they look at the objections uh to this vast expansion of statism that's going on at the moment.
Uh there's a story in the LA Times uh today that says states most likely to win under health care overhaul are home to its biggest foes.
Uh that's the headline.
Uh and they point out right at the beginning that rural states have more uninsured and lower income people who stand to benefit from Obama's health care legislation.
And yet it's there where the effort faces the most vocal resistance.
Uh this piece is by James Olivant.
And it talks about states like Wyoming.
Uh and it uh says, you know, Wyoming has got a lot of people who are rural, low-income, uninsured.
Why aren't they on board with all the good things that the big Obama nanny state wants to do with them?
Uh this is a classic argument that Liberals and Democrats make all the time.
It's the the guy wrote the book, What's the Matter with Kansas?
The matter with Kansas as he sees it is is that Kansas uh Cans and Hicks are too stupid, too dumb, too rubbish and uneducated uh to understand that big liberal government has their best interests at heart.
Because if if only these dumb rural hicks, these rubes would get on board with the program, uh they would discover that big government has got all kinds of nice little uh nice nice little lollipops and uh uh super duper social programs that'll make everything in their life painless and go away.
Uh they're missing the point.
They're missing the point.
There's large numbers of people, large numbers of people who are not wealthy people, uh, but who uh understand that it is more important to have the freedom, the liberty to make your own choices on these things.
Basically what the government is telling you is, look, you're a dumb rural hick, and you're gonna be a dumb rural hick forever.
Uh but don't worry about it, because we will in introduce a government program that will ameliorate your crummy, dumb, stupid, worthless government rural hiciness uh and uh make life more comfortable for you.
You'll still be a dumb rural hick, and so will your kids and so will your kids' kids.
That's just the way it is.
But we will introduce government programs that will make this more comfortable for you.
Sorry, that's not the American way.
That's why people came to America.
People came to America to get away from that kind of thinking.
If you were in Poland and you were a peasant in the fifteenth century, you'd be a po a peasant in the nineteenth century and you were going to be a peasant in the twenty-fourth century.
That's just the way it was.
So people came to America.
And they got off the boat at Ellis Island and they lived in a crummy tenement on the Lower East Side, uh, and then their children uh uh got spoke better English and got better jobs uh and moved out uh to the nice part of town, and then their grandchildren were were living in the suburbs and having a great life.
Uh that's the American way, self-improvement.
The idea that these uh rural hicks in Wyoming and other states are too stupid to understand that the great beneficent uh nanny state is going to do all these great things for them, uh they're missing the point.
People don't a certain at a certain level people understand that there's a price to be paid for that.
There's a price to be paid for saying, look, let the government take care of all the health care decisions.
Let the government uh take care of uh various funds for education.
Let the government provide federalized daycare.
And the price for that is the shriveling of liberty and the shriveling and the shrinking of the choices that you're allowed to make in your own lives.
And what what uh every big government person is looking for in the end is a client.
They're looking for a client base.
They're looking for uh a dependent class who will need them, who need government.
Uh and God bless these rural states where people have been standing up uh and saying, uh I don't care what it is, I value my liberty.
You give me my liberty, uh, and I may be uh poor and I may not have all the things I want, but I have my freedom, which is more important to me, and if I have my freedom and my children have my freedom uh and and my grandchildren have their freedom, uh then eventually, eventually we will be able to better ourselves without the in intervention of uh people like Good King Teddy, uh uh the Duke of Chappaquidic and all the rest of it.
Uh people i it was very interesting looking at the coverage of the Kennedy uh uh uh of the Kennedy funeral, because uh the argument made by liberals, often quite explicitly, is that uh oh yeah, Teddy uh ran into a bit of a problem at Chappaquid,
and he wasn't always the most gentlemanly uh chap around waitresses uh and other women who happen to catch his passing fancy, but it doesn't matter uh because he did so much for poor people, as if this somehow is like an unusual situation.
It's not.
That's the classic excuse.
The idea of a kind of benign paternalism is the classic excuse uh for the the great prince uh having his way with all the serving wenches that has gone on in monarchical societies through the ages.
It's the classic trade-off.
Yes, the uh the king may have his way uh with the lusty serving wench who happens to catch his eye, but it doesn't matter because he cares about all the peasants and he does good things for the peasants.
And there's something actually disgusting and unbecoming uh to the American Republic uh to hear people talking about it uh in those terms.
This this is not uh you don't need Ted Kennedy to make your life better for you.
If Ted Kennedy would just get out of the way, you can make your life better for yourself.
Uh and and that it that is why people came to America, because they had the opportunity here uh that they didn't have in Europe, where the where the where the Duke of Chappaquidic and all the rest of them were all well established.
Uh and it was accepted that, okay, he might have personally disgusting habits of behavior, but he he cared about the the common folk.
Uh when he went riding among them, showering his largesse on them, uh, that showed how much he really cared, and that redeemed him.
That argument is a monarchical argument uh that is unbecoming uh to the United States.
And that is why in the they get it in these rural states, and they reject uh the idea that simply because Good King Barack comes among you offering uh all these uh supposedly free health care and uh and clean environment and all the other stuff that he's uh that he he's going to impose on you through uh government regulation that somehow all that is worth you trading uh your uh your liberty uh for.
Uh what was disgusting about the Kennedy coverage was uh was when it got explicit.
Uh for example, there was a lady called Melissa Lafsky at the Huffington Post who mused on what Mary Joe Capeckney, quote, would have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history.
Who knows, wrote Melissa Lasky, maybe she'd feel it was worth it, unquote.
Uh and as um uh Tim Blair, the great Australian wag put on his uh uh uh down on the Daily Telegraph website in Australia, he put uh Mary Jo Copecny died so that the food allergen labeling and consumer protection act could live.
Uh that is the trade-off, that is the trade-off uh that has gone on in in uh in monarchical societies in medieval Europe all the time.
That the the the good king he had is uh Henry the Eighth is the classic example.
Ted Kennedy could have played him in one of those PBS masterpiece theater things.
Yes, he staggers around wenching and uh indulging, and you know, you're looking for him to pass the food allergen labeling and consumer protection act, and you have to go into the orgy room and try to identify him by whose bottom is uh is poking up in the air from which particular corner of the room, but it doesn't matter because he cares about the common folk.
Uh and that is where the LA Times with their story, State's most likely to win under health care overhaul, a home to its biggest foes.
That's where they're missing the point.
It's not that the rubes are too dumb to understand the big government has their best interests in heart.
It's that the rubes don't look on themselves in in that way.
They don't look at themselves as being part of a statistic, as part of a being a demographic.
The point about America is that you're an individual.
So you can be a rural hick in the middle of nowhere living in a tarp shack night uh uh right now, but if government just gets out of your way, anything is possible.
And if big government is in place, then nothing is in nothing is possible.
If you go uh to Western Europe, you will notice that generally speaking, people live in smaller homes, they drive smaller cars, uh they enjoy uh they do not enjoy uh the same range of opportunity and the same social mobility that Americans do.
Uh and this idea that simply because uh the good king in his faraway castle has the best interests of the peasantry at heart.
He knows better uh for you than you know yourself.
That is not the American way, and it doesn't matter whether it's good King Teddy or Good King Barack or any of them.
They are our representatives, not our rulers.
And you don't uh mortgage your liberty uh to someone who is meant to be a citizen legislator.
The citizen legislator is there uh to say that this is America uh and uh the point about America, unlike the societies everyone came from, is that government is restrained uh in order to provide you more space to fulfill your potential, whatever that may be.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein sitting in for rush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the uh EIB network.
Let's go to Alan in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Alan, you're on the Rush Lynbore show.
Great to have you with us.
Well, thank you very much, Mr. Stein, and it's a great pleasure to speak with you.
Hey, hey, wait a wait a minute.
I I detect a touch of uh of the uh old uh Australian in there somewhere.
You from you you from down under?
In another loyalty, mate, in another law.
Whereabout?
Hey, dig the rest of you can just uh just ignore this little little British Commonwealth chit chat while we're here.
Whereabouts in Australia from?
Just because they won uh won the cricket uh recently.
That you know, that doesn't give uh No, no, no, no, no, no, and wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
This this show has tens of millions of listeners, and the word cricket instantly, like ninety-eight percent of them just fall off the map now.
They've all gone over.
They're all listening to Bill Moyers on NPR.
The word cricket is still that's it, it's over.
Don't say googlies.
If you say googlies, the last three listeners will be out of here.
We're going to talk about well, for the next hour, we'll be going to be talking about the ashes.
Okay.
Enough cricket.
Enough cricket, Jake.
All that all accent, all accent Wednesday on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Alan, do you have a Alan, do you have a point you wish to make that might be tangentially related to the last three American listeners tuned in across across the fruited plate now?
In uh in my best John Albert voice, yes, sir.
Yeah.
Okay.
And what is that?
Um you spoke earlier this afternoon about uh this idiot David Brooks, this supposed conservative, this uh right of center person.
He's mister yeah, Mr. Moderate at the New York Times.
Yeah, well, he's the resident imposter as far as I'm concerned.
But the the point that you made um has a that I'd like to speak to, and that is uh I'm Catholic by tradition.
What's that got to do with the point that you were making about uh Brooks?
It's this that um there is a mirror image in reverse for Catholics for 1900 years we were treated as sheep and told not to think, not to use our own minds, and just to uh come to church, go to mass, meet our obligations, and uh everything will be hunky-dory.
Well, it wasn't until John the Twenty Third came along and created uh Vatican II where the role responsibilities were completely reversed, and it's taken over thirty years, a generation, for Catholics to come to grips with the fact that each of us have our own responsibility for our own souls.
Right.
What Obama is doing is precisely, precisely what the Catholic Church did as a disservice to its members, to its adherents for nearly two centuries uh two uh millennia.
And what uh your audience who are not Catholics should take very, very, very cogent uh notice of is that what he's doing is inveigling them into the same mindset that for nearly two millennia Catholics were sucked into,
and once they were forced to face their own responsibilities, it's taken a long, long time for a lot of people who didn't like to face their own responsibilities for their own souls and and uh translating that into the um uh the socio uh political nonsense that Obama is bringing to the stage.
That's that that's actually a a very big point you're making there, because if you were to if you were to come up with the model uh that the the Obama approach to government uh most closely approximates, it is uh the the old school uh medieval uh church, uh which uh which in in many parts of Europe was uh an official church, was the state church.
And that uh and now we have a new state church, and the state church is Obama-sized liberalism.
Basically, uh if you believe in Obama, uh, and that's uh that's essentially why he's beaming himself into schoolhouses uh and and and promoting himself in every corner.
So there's and he he's got your government motors and your cash for clunkers.
So there's no part of your life, it is in you you are unable to function in any part of your life uh without uh Pope Barack and the big government church, they're inserting itself into every aspect of your life, setting the parameters for how you conduct yourself in that con uh corner of your life.
Uh and it and it is uh it's uh actually a very interesting point that that uh liberals believe uh uh secular liberals uh who who are the first to get on their high horses about doctrinaire theocrats, nevertheless are quite happy to sign on to the idea of big government as the all-powerful universal liberal uh church uh with uh with with the doctrine of papal infallibility uh applied to uh uh applied to Pope Barack.
That's uh that's a very that's actually a very shrewd point, Alan.
Uh uh Thanks thank thanks uh a lot for making it in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
You g uh by the way, excuse our cricket conversation earlier.
Sure.
Alan doesn't get the opportunity to talk critic cricket that that much in uh in Chattanooga.
Uh I don't know.
I had I heard rumors in my state in New Hampshire.
There was a rumor that there was a cricket team somewhere in New that had formed itself somewhere in southern New Hampshire, but they had no one to play.
That's the trick.
If you're gonna form a cricket team in the United States, so if yet you need two.
Otherwise you they're undefeated.
They could hold five-day test matches all by themselves.
So if you want to there's a cricket team somewhere in Southern New Hampshire.
If you want to form one in Chattanooga, Tennessee, they'll be happy to play you.
More straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, great to be with you.
Uh Rush will be back on Monday.
The great Walter Williams uh will be here on Friday.
And you know who else is coming back?
I see on the front page of the New York Post today.
Elliot Spitzer.
Elliot Spitzer has decided he's going to be making a political comeback.
And I think he's the with the economy the way it is, I think that's uh that's the kind of guy we could use at the moment.
There is a guy who knows how to invest in the private sector.
He will be he will be uh he he will be back take charge, uh lots of uh uh great money for Amtrak, uh rooms at the Mayflower, and uh various uh three hundred dollar activities, all uh courtesy of Elliot Spitzer.
There are s the great thing about America, anybody can come back.
They don't like the uh uh New York's current governor, David Patterson, uh who uh who entered uh who began his term the way Spitzer went out, because he had I can't remember the details of this now.
He he had some he had some sex scandal with some woman, but it wasn't the Mayflower.
It was like just it was at the Yeah, it wasn't the whole day in, I know, wasn't it?
It was a days in, I think.
It was basically the Econo Lodge round the back of Newark Airport or something.
It wasn't he wasn't doing like the full Mayflower thing.
Uh but he denied that he ever used state cash to pay for liaisons, which is incredibly implausible.
If if true, it's impressive.
Because it means that um uh it means that uh governors hookers are about the only thing in the state of New York that isn't being paid for with taxpayers' money.
Uh but anyway, uh Elliot Spitzer is on his way back.
Only in America, is the headline on the New York Post uh says.
Let's go to Jen in San Clemente, uh California, Nixon country.
Uh Jen, great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hello, thank you.
How are you, Mr. Stang?
I'm doing great.
How are things in California?
Um in my part of the woods, they're doing great.
There's no wildfires here, but um it's nice and sunny and beautiful.
But I'd like to talk about this.
I'm a mom of three school age children, and September 8th is their first day of school.
Right.
Um I think it's tacky and overreaching, and I cannot believe that Obama is planning his speech on my children's first day of school.
Um I'm totally skeptical of what he's gonna say.
I don't agree with any of his policies.
Um so I don't see how I could support anything he's gonna say.
And the guided teacher that asks, what can I do for President Obama?
He says, and are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?
My kids don't even do what I asked them to do half the time, and now the President's gonna be.
Well, well, wait a minute.
That's because you're not the most gifted orator since Socrates like President Obama.
Oh, I'm not gonna be able to do it.
If you if you stood there, if you instead of just speaking to your kids and telling them to tidy their room or whatever, if instead you stood on the chair, uh you can all do this.
Get a get perhaps by a uh get a pretend teleprompter.
It doesn't have to be a real one.
That's what I need.
I should use my laptop.
Yeah, just uh Yeah, or just turn a broom upside down, glue it to the floor, stick a stick a small pane of glass on the top of the broom.
It'll look like a teleprompter, stand on the chair and talk to your kids about hope and change, change and hope, hopey changey, changey hopy, and you'll uh you'll be inspiring them.
Instead of just uh doing all this mean-spirited Republican type thing like uh telling them to eat their vegetables and uh clean their rooms.
That's that's you've got to you've got to go the Obama route.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But uh what he's gonna do, apparently, is he's going to he's going to tell them to write letters to themselves about what they could do to help the president.
Uh which I find uh sort of slightly unhealthy.
I mean it's all part of the cult of personality.
Obviously it's not we're not talking about the cult of personality on the kind of Kim Jong il Saddam Hussein uh scale.
But uh I don't see that it's part of American education to get grade school kids to write letters to themselves about things they can do to help the president.
Uh particularly if they happen to take the same view of helping the president as as Rush did when he said that he hopes uh Obama will fail.
I mean, even if you think that's a relatively harmless thing, it's nothing to do with education, and there are enough distractions from education in American grade schools uh anyway.
How old how old are your uh kids, by the way, Jen?
Um I have twins that will be six in October, and then I have an almost eight-year-old.
Okay, so they're they should be now getting just to the age where they're skeptical of uh of of the uh of the president.
My uh my seven-year-old uh was uh was getting fed up with uh with Obama midway through the inauguration when they were taken in to listen to his speech.
I'm not persuaded, by the way, actually, that forcing kids to listen to Obama speaking at them for uh forever is uh is necessarily gonna do him any favors in the long term.
Uh uh the psychiatrist will have a field day with recovered memory sessions in uh in twenty years' time.
But but but but would you be in favor, say, just to get this on the table, would you be in favor if Bush uh were in office w of Bush beaming himself into classrooms to give speeches to the kids?
No, because I don't think kids should be involved in politics in that way.
Uh for instance, I don't watch I watch a movie before I let my kids watch it, and since I don't know what the heck he's gonna say, I can't go along with it.
I don't know if he's gonna tell them to join his little army of, you know, brown shirts or what exactly.
Oh no, no, no, no, don't worry about that.
He's I thought you were gonna say went about inappropriate.
He was just gonna do some of his his goofy little special Olympics jokes that he likes to do when he lets his hair down.
But I don't think you have to do I don't think you've had to worry about him uh him getting getting out the brown shirts uh just yet.
Uh there uh thank you very much for your for your call, Jen, uh in San Clemente.
I think we had a little of uh her kids there in the in the background.
It's I don't I don't quite understand that either.
September the eighth is the first day.
My kids went back to school in New Hampshire in uh uh about sort of August 26th.
I guess that must be gonna really?
And uh HRs went went back today.
So it's just like in California, you can't get the I guess it's the the lavishly reimbursed California uh school teachers are not prepared to uh return from their uh from their beach houses in the Bahamas until September the eighth.
Is that what it is?
I don't know.
Anyway, it might just be I I'm I I mock I mock that.
I in in New Hampshire we go back earlier because we get so many snow days in the winter that they have to eat up all the summer to to get the man mandatory minimum number of days they need by law to teach you about how great Barack Obama is.
You know, you require a certain number of of uh of days to do that.
Let's go to Ken in Lavonia uh Michigan.
Ken, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Yeah, I just wanted uh comment regarding uh President Obama giving his uh broadcast to the children on uh September eighth.
I think parents uh need to be cautious about it.
Uh I think they need to be uh concerned about it.
Uh history has shown us uh time and again that uh when we look at the different countries that have been controlled by uh different groups of uh socialists or uh that type of ideology, that it's not uncommon to use the uh school systems,
the educational system to uh try to influence the uh children, trying to promote um support of their ideology, their programs, uh trying to get the children uh to even have influence over the parents.
No, but you you're you know, you're you make a good point there, Ken.
But the the reality is that this goes on every day of the week in American schoolhouses.
And in way in many in many ways, it's the only reason uh that uh Obama is president.
Because for decades now, uh essentially the default mode of American education uh has been liberal.
It's been liberal in its assumptions.
Every every parent of a grade schooler knows this.
Uh the the kids are enjoined to do stuff about, you know, global warming, climate change.
Uh all the assumptions about environmentalism uh that uh uh arise in American schoolhouses are liberal assumptions.
The air you breathe is liberal uh in in the uh in the American in the American school system.
And uh that's why they don't really need Obama beaming himself in on September the eighth, because all that does is make explicit uh what everybody knows is the case uh unofficially anyway that the that the assumptions of all these uh of all these school teachers uh are by and large almost entirely liberal.
Uh d in the run up to the election I went into my uh kids' uh little school just a small rural uh school in New Hampshire no big deal uh nothing uh just uh just an ordinary New Hampshire public school.
It was very interesting to me.
They had some they they were covering the election in a sort of bipartisan way.
So they had some uh posters and placards and things stuck up on a wall.
All the Obama-Biden placards were real placards.
The only one they can find for McCain or Palin was in fact one from a liberal website that was in fact a parody McCain sticker that the teacher had cut the moveon.org logo off the bottom of.
In other words, they're prepared to pay lip service to the idea of a kind of non-partisan approach to education.
But in fact, education is really where you start building the subject of the government
the big government nanny state uh and and that's uh William Ayers understood that uh w with his ideas on education that if you burrow your ways i win William Ayers wise up he was a terrorist he liked blowing things up and then he figured out that in America if you if you start blowing up army bases all people are gonna do is hunt you down and arrest you and toss you in jail and that if you want to o overthrow the American system as Ayers did, you don't do that.
You don't blow up an army barracks.
Uh you're never going to do it that way.
You don't blow up the building you burrow yourself into the institutions and hollow them out from within.
And that was his approach to American education and he's done it so suc he's done it very successfully all through the Reagan era, Republicans had great suc have had great success in the last thirty years in electoral politics and have surrendered turf on almost all the other institutions of society including uh obviously things like Hollywood uh and newspapers and the media but also uh the education system and i i you think of the education that most American uh children receive and
then about the likelihood of them emerging from that uh and every other November pulling the lever for a conservative candidate uh in the elections in the United States that gets a bit of a long shot when the left has such a death grip on American education as it does at the moment.
1 800 28282 Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Great to be with you let's go to Rick in Chicago.
Rick thanks for waiting.
You are on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey Mark how are you today?
I'm doing good how are things in Chicago love that city.
Oh it's a it's a beautiful day out here.
Happy weather global warming is really working for us up here in Chicago.
Good good to you know I uh I was uh in Chicago for a long quite a bit uh bit of time a couple of uh years ago and I was intrigued to see that uh uh President Obama the only thing we have in common is we have the same favorite restaurant in town we went to this place uh spadgia on uh down on uh North Michigan somewhere toward the lake and uh it's a quite it's like a fancy joint and uh uh Obama sort of tried to downplay it when he said he was favorite restaurant.
He said it was like a couple of hundred bucks a head.
I don't uh a couple of hundred bucks for two.
I don't think you can get out of there for like four hundred uh never been there.
Never been there.
Well you you you should get well under the stimulus pad you'll be getting you'll be you'll be paid to dine there with Nancy Pelosi every night while while uh guitar strumming guitarists play Viacondios uh as you and Nancy canoodle by candlelight.
So don't worry about that.
I will wait I'll wait for that invitation with baited breath.
Oh okay.
Now uh Rick enough uh enough of this uh what's your recommendation for restaurants in Chicago Well you know what I'd like to chop out.
Really?
I'm I'm just a meat and potatoes guy.
Yeah yeah yeah you're not one of these like yeah you're not in this like uh ill fancy elitist joint with me.
Yeah, you know, we you're not in uh arugula central with me and uh me and Barack and Michelle.
Uh who else was it?
Michael Kane.
Michael Kane was in there because he was filming the Alfred the Butler thing from uh Batman.
So Michael uh lovely Michael uh and uh not lovely Michael, it is lovely wife Shakira and Michael uh uh came over to say hi at uh Mike.
Oh, it was a great uh it was a great anyway.
The problem is is when you get into a restaurant like that, what fork do you pick up first?
And do you actually stick your pinky out?
Oh, don't don't worry don't get don't get hung up uh don't get hung up on that.
Just pick the plate up.
It's all those exquisite dishes.
They're all like every dish is like a hundred and seventy bucks or something, and it's tiny.
It's tiny.
It's not like it's not like surf and turf night at Bud's Roadhouse.
You know, you get this like tiny little postage stamp, beautiful huge plate, and he puts it down, and there's this little tiny thing there that looks like a sort of squished bug in the middle of it, and that is actually the the meal.
So you actually have to go out and you have to eat dinner before you go to eat dinner.
Yeah, yeah, or you can you can uh uh stop off uh you know, just uh line your stomach with a couple of big Macs, you'll be you'll be uh fine.
Uh well.
Wait, what did you what's the reason for your call today, Rick?
The reason for my call, uh just a statement before I get to my comment.
You know, I lost my job a year and a half ago, and I just um I went out and created my own job.
Um last year, my first full year in business, I employed twelve people.
Now my business is kinda retracted this year, and I only have three or four guys working for me steadily.
But but my point is is um you can only be your brother's keeper for so long.
And when I do uh subscribe to giving somebody a leg up and giving somebody a hand, um this whole nanny state affair is just it's it's tragic to what we've become.
And you know, how long do you have to be your brother's keeper and when is enough enough?
When you can't get a guy to go help himself, why should you help him?
Yeah, and that that's uh that's an excellent point because people like you, guys running businesses that employ twelve people, uh, who are having to hold up the system for everybody else.
And you know, when you use that term about being your brother's keeper, I don't mind people being their brother's keeper.
If Barack Obama wants to be his brother's keeper, his brother lives in Kenya on twelve dollars a year.
Now, meanwhile, meanwhile, Barack Obama is dining at Spagia for uh, you know, four hundred bucks.
Uh and why doesn't instead why doesn't he cut down a number of times he why don't you give up one meal at Spadgia and send that four hundred dollars to his brother in Kenya uh and uh and would and would be uh and would be increasing it.
Yeah, we're getting get him a six room hutter's eight chances.
Well, okay, let's not say he doesn't have to give up eating at Spad Jeff.
Instead of why didn't he just send him uh a hundred bucks uh and and increase the guy's earning tenfold from twelve bucks a year to a hundred and twelve bucks a year.
Uh the the point is w that biblical lesson that we are our brothers' keeper is about personal responsibility.
It's not about saying let the government tax and regulate you, Rick with your twelve man business into paying for uh uh everybody's brothers.
Yeah th the Bible enjoins us to take personal responsibility for those people, not to outsource it to big government.
Exactly.
Well, and here's the main point of my call today.
I hold Barack Obama or any of his ilk responsible, personally responsible for anything that we're going through these days.
Um because he told us what he was going to do.
He told us what his agenda was.
He told us what he wanted to do and how he wanted to shape the nation.
Who I hold responsible are all the rhinos out there.
The the rhinos in the Senate, the rhinos in the Congress, the the Republicans a name only that that through their own malfeasance, through their moral corruptness and moral bankruptcy, allowed the system to work against the common people of this nation.
We would be it would be a completely different landscape, and and I I dare say that I don't I think there would be a better system of checks and balances starting mid uh midterm elections 06.
If we wouldn't have had um our party, the Conservative Party, um deviate from their core principles.
Thank thanks, Rick.
We got to run.
We're uh we're running late and we're up against the uh the clock for a profit center here.
I'll address that uh when we come back with more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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Uh we'll talk a bit more about what Rick was saying about uh being our brother's keeper in perpetuity, and you uh uh uh which is what is being lined up for us because it's falling on small businessmen uh like Rick, uh who are the ones who are gonna be taxed and regulated to pay for a lot of this.
Lots more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
I'll be here tomorrow.
Walter Williams will be here on Friday.
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