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Sept. 2, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 2, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Great to be with you.
America's anchorman is away.
He returns Monday.
This is your undocumented anchorman here today and tomorrow.
The great Walter E. Williams will be here on Friday.
And Rush returns with his voice all rested and recovered on Monday.
It's very important that if you're in this line of work, you've got to keep your voice in great shape.
I saw poor old Whitney Houston had a, it was supposed to be her big comeback thing on Good Morning America yesterday, and it all went horribly wrong because her voice cracked and she couldn't reach the notes or whatever.
And she blamed it because she'd been talking to Oprah, apparently, on the day before.
I think it was more to do with the fact that she was brooding over this extraordinary headline in the Daily Mail in London.
Obsessed bin Laden wanted to kill Whitney Houston's husband.
Apparently, Osama bin Laden is in love with Whitney Houston.
He's obsessed with Whitney Houston, and he's so fanatically jealous he wants to kill her husband, Bobby Brown.
This is according to a lady called a Sudanese poet called Kola Bouf, who was Osama bin Laden's sex slave Tayton years ago.
And she says that Osama told me Whitney Houston was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen.
He kept coming back to Whitney Houston.
He said that he had a paramount desire for Whitney Houston.
And although he claimed music was evil, he spoke of someday spending vast amounts of money to go to America and try to arrange a meeting with the superstar.
We don't need to send more troops to Afghanistan.
We just need to like bombard.
What we need to do is strategically place in the foothills of the Hindu Kush speakers playing Whitney Houston singing I will always love you.
And Osama, Osama will hear the music and be drawn towards it.
He'll come out from whatever cave he and his dialysis machine are hooked up in at the moment.
He'll be there.
He'll be back at the back of the cave in Waziristan by the executive latrine, you know, the prime position that only Osama has the right to go to.
And he will hear the strains of Whitney singing, I will always love you.
The good version, not like the one she tried to do on Good Morning America where voice is all shot and everything, but like the real version of it.
And he'll think, oh, she's come for me.
She's got rid of that loser Bobby Brown.
And he'll come wandering out and that's it.
The whole Afghan situation solved right there.
That's right.
I love the sound of Whitney in the boarding.
That's what they're going to do when they come to make the film of it.
Rick actually had a very good point, and we got distracted on it because I was going on about Chicago, best places to eat in Chicago, because me and President Obama got like the old arugula joints, and he was talking about the chop house.
And Catherine, did you say that's right?
Did I hear that right?
There's a hot dog place in Chicago that serves a foie gras dog?
Yeah, they did it.
Chicago did their frog rod band as sort of like a screw you.
They came up with the frog rod dog.
They've got a foie gras, you know, because this was like John Kerry's thing.
Every time he tried to be Mr. Normal American when he was like campaigning, he'd be at like a hot dog joint and they'd say, well, how do you want it?
And he'd say, oh, I'd like it drizzled in an aubergine and raspberry coolie if you've got one.
So he would clearly have been at home in the foie gras hot dog joint in Chicago.
But Rick, aside from the restaurant recommendations, Rick made an important point.
Rick is what people love about America.
He lost his job a year and a half ago.
What does he do?
He doesn't say, well, why can't Obama pay my mortgage?
And why can't Obama take care of my car payments?
And why can't Obama find me some government make work job?
He founded his own business.
That is the great thing about America.
That's what drives America.
That's what supports America is small business.
And we have done terrible things to we do terrible things to small business in this country.
We overtax them, we over-regulate them.
We have some of the most uncompetitive corporate tax rates in the world.
And we're proposing to make them worse.
We've got the situation, I mentioned this when I was here a couple of weeks ago, Tim Horton's Donuts, which serves doughnuts on both sides of the 49th parallel, Canada and America.
It's incorporated in the state of Delaware.
It's reorganizing itself as a Canadian company to take advantage of Canadian corporate tax rates.
We do terrible things to business in this country.
And yet at the same time, people come here because they want to live the way Rick lived.
They want the right to control their own destiny to say, well, I've lost my job, but I'm going to form my own business.
I'm going to get up.
I don't need a government handout.
I'm going to go and do it myself.
And it's interesting to me that the worst thing about big government is not that it costs too much money, but that it costs too much.
I would say, in a deeper sense, that it actually atrophies the human spirit.
I mentioned earlier that I was in London a couple of days ago, last week, all last week, and it was interesting to me wandering around.
You'd go into like coffee joints, the post office, department stores.
Very rarely were you served by a Londoner.
In all the coffee places, in all the equivalents of Starbucks and everything, it's all these Polish baristas now and from other parts of Eastern Europe.
They're all talking in Polish behind the counter.
And is this because Britain has full employment and so Londoners don't need to do these jobs?
These are jobs that Londoners won't do to put it in the lines people use about immigration here.
No, not at all.
There are staggering figures for the number of people who have opted generationally out of work completely in Britain since they introduced the welfare state.
If you go back to the time the Labour government, Tony Blair, came in in 1997, five million Britain, and we all got excited here because the unemployment rate tipped up to about 10% in the United States.
And that's high enough to have commentators alarmed.
In the United Kingdom, there are five million grown-ups, or about 10% of the entire adult population, who haven't worked a single day since Tony Blair's Labour Party came to power in 1997.
These are people who aren't unemployed.
They understand that the welfare state no longer requires them to work, and there is no stigma attached to not working.
That in fact, you can exist entirely on government handouts and you won't be disapproved of it.
It will be regarded as entirely normal.
In one sixth of British households, not a single family member works.
One fifth of British children are raised in homes in which no adult works.
And that's kind of common right across Europe.
You don't have to game the system.
You're not gaming the system.
The system lets you do this perfectly legally.
Four-fifths of French Imams are on the dole.
So all these people who are calling for the overthrow of Western civilization are actually taxpayer-funded.
This will be the first taxpayer-funded civilizational downfall in history.
We say to Saudi Imams, hey, hey, come over to Europe, come over to North America.
Don't worry.
Don't worry if you can't find one of the big-time mosques to pay you a big six-figure figure salary.
We'll let you be on the doll.
One of the chief al-Qaeda recruiters was living on benefits in Britain, and he had a quarter of a million dollars in his checking account at the time the so-called Department of Work wondered if they were giving him way too many handouts.
That is what Rick is talking about, that at some point you reach a stage where it has become entirely natural for millions and millions and millions and millions of people to do no work.
Their children do no work, their grandchildren do no work, you have generational dependency.
And I don't want to see the United States go down the same track that other parts of the Western world have done.
And as I said, not only because it's unaffordable, which it is in the fiscal sense, but it's unaffordable in the moral sense.
It absolutely corrodes any citizenship in any meaningful sense.
And someone like Rick, someone like Rick, he got a tough break.
He got laid off a year and a half ago, as he told us.
And so what does he do?
He looks at it not as something that requires government intervention, but as something that in fact is an opportunity for him.
He forms his own business.
He hires people.
That is the American way.
And when you look at the failed parts of this country, which are increasing in number, I regret to say, but when you look at them, when you look at, say, New Orleans, which Mark Davis was talking about yesterday.
Now, New Orleans had had democratic government for the last half century.
They had done everything the Democratic Party way.
They had had big government, big welfare, and all the rest of it.
And there is simply no point.
You can't build a city on that.
And that is why when Katrina sweeps in and devastates everything, you have the spectacular sight of all those school buses that were supposed to evacuate people instead sitting in a parking lot full of water because somebody, the big government had failed and had not sent it to rescue people.
But look, if you're in a place when the tsunami hits and you're waiting for government, whether state government or local government or never mind federal government to do something for you, you're looking at it all wrong.
If something's going to sweep in and blow away your home and you think it's George W. Bush's responsibility in some big city thousands of miles away, you're looking at the situation all wrong.
The only one of the few good stories to come out of New Orleans in that period when all those school buses were sitting rotting in that big pool of water that nobody had sent them out to rescue people was some kid, I think he was 15 or 16, and he commandeered a school bus and rescued himself and a whole bunch of other people and drove it out of there.
And the reaction, of course, of the city of New Orleans was to want to prosecute him for driving without an official school bus license or whatever the hell it was.
But that's the point.
He demonstrated initiative.
And the trouble with big government is it eventually it kills initiative.
It kills initiative and you have this dead, dull, intergenerational dependency where you can have three, four people, three, four generations of a family that have never worked, which is now becoming the situation, parts of the United Kingdom, parts of Europe.
There's a suburb of Stockholm where 20% of women in their 40s are on disability benefit.
Why?
Is Stockholm a particularly dangerous place to live?
Do you injure yourself and find yourself unable to work in all kinds of weird ways?
No.
What happens is that people figure out that when you can live off the government, you don't need to work.
The essence of Western civilization and society, which is self-reliant citizens taking responsibility for their own lives, dies.
It's happened in large parts of Europe and it doesn't have to happen here.
So don't let it happen here.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein, Infor Rush on the EIB Network.
Great to be with you.
Let's go to Dan in Cookville, Tennessee.
Dan, thanks for waiting.
Great to have you with us.
Mark, I'd like to take a stab at telling people why the stimulus package, especially in transportation, is not going to work.
And first of all, I'd have to, I want to assume that you don't know everything there is to know about American history, although you seem to know more than too many Americans.
I haven't had the benefit of an American education, which may be why I'm up to speed on some of it.
But go ahead, Dan.
Well, let's go back to like 1956 when the interstate system was first conceived.
The Congress demanded that these roads connect major centers, major cities.
And these cities had very high per capita incomes.
They were perhaps overperforming in what we call today.
It was an attempt to get the greatest good for the greatest number.
And so the whole package we have now and the stimulus is the exact opposite.
You can't spend stimulus money unless the county or the city is underperforming.
Now, then, if you go back to 1956, there's some economists who have figured, and I don't know how they did this, but they figured that we got a rate of return or we got a dollar and thirty cents back for every dollar we spent on the interstate.
And they're very flummoxed and concerned because when they do the same calculation today, that same rate of return is declining, and it may be down to six cents on the dollar.
Yeah, and you're absolutely right that the reason is because what they were doing when in the Eisenhower days in 1956 when they put in the interstate system was, in a sense, putting in infrastructure for what were already successful, dynamic parts of the country.
So, in a sense, they were supporting the market, the market's decisions there.
Here, they're trying to stimulate the economy by saying, Well, here's some broken-down rural township in the middle of nowhere, so we're going to put a paved road through it in defiance of market reality.
Well, not only that, we've got a in Tennessee here.
We have a I-69 project.
It's going to cost about $12 million per mile.
It's over in the West End, you know, parallel to the Mississippi River.
And it will not make enough money to pay for itself.
You know, here in Tennessee, we get about two and a half cents per vehicle mile.
And if you put the amount of traffic on that at two and a half cents a vehicle mile, we cannot buy back that pavement over 40 years at 5% interest rate, and so it does not pay for itself.
So, we'll have inadequate future sums coming in to pay for the money that we're going out.
And there's one other thing that gives me concern is that if you go look in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and look at how much Americans pay for transportation, it's only been above 12% once and below 10% once in all the data that they've got.
It averages about 11.7% of disposable income.
Now, your disposable income is what you make minus taxes.
And so if you increase taxes, your disposable income goes down.
And so no matter who's the president, no matter who, you know, Americans are going to spend that on the car, on the insurance, on the gasoline, on the oil.
And so, you know, we're, for some reason that I don't even understand, that's very fixed in our psyche.
Or I don't understand why it's so fixed, but we're not going to spend a whole lot more than that.
And you can, if you take it out of the general fund and put it into our highway fund or whatever, it's still going to be about that percentage.
And I think that's the reason that I don't have any great expectation that we're going to do that.
And also, we have a bunch of people in the highway department who are perfectly willing to let the interstate decline.
Here in Tennessee, we have a road that goes from Memphis to Bristol.
It's I-40 and I-81.
They're going to let that thing decline to what they call service level D.
And if you were an engineer, you would know that they're going to let that thing drop to an average of 54 miles away.
You're right there.
You're right there, Dan.
And what is irritating to me about this vast highway construction thing is it is nothing to do with stimulating the economy.
It is stimulating the federal government's role in transportation infrastructure.
And that is not for the reasons that the Eisenhower administration created the original interstate network as a way of facilitating the throughways of American commerce and making them perform more effectively, but for entirely different reasons in hopes of social distortion, to ease up, as you said, inequities between so-called underperforming areas.
And in most cases, they're not even performing any necessary infrastructure work.
They're just taking off the top layer of pavement and they're re-skimming it over and over.
I've just seen that every time, the last couple of times I've driven to the airport to come down to New York to do the rush show.
That's all they're doing on the bridges.
They're going to have to do it again on some of these roads when the frost heaves in my part of the world break all the roads up in the winter.
So all they've done, in effect, is use taxpayer dollars for a temporary and superfluous skim coat on the highways.
We'll talk about that and much more straight ahead on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush today and tomorrow.
Walter Williams will be here on Friday.
Great to be with you.
You know, we were talking about President Obama's speech to these school kids these days on September the 8th.
The Eagle Bay Elementary School in Farmington is in Farmington, Utah, is already showing a celebrity video about Obama that was made by Ashton Kutcher, that great thinker.
And let's face it, we're all glad to hear that more and more Ashton Kutcher is being taught to our schoolchildren.
It's a video pledge-a-thon in which various big-time celebrities, well, that's to say you actually have heard of maybe two or three of them, pledge to devote themselves to service to the president.
They pledge all together, quote, pledge to be a servant to our president and to all mankind, because together we can, together we are, and together we will be the change that we seek, unquote.
No doubt it sounds a lot better when Whitney Houston does it as the big power ballad on Good Morning America.
But the idea of these celebrity obots supporting the personality cult around the president being taught in the Eagle Bay Elementary School in Farmington, Utah is what a lot of the problem is.
The personality cult is unbecoming to a republic of citizen legislators, and that's why we shouldn't be doing it.
Let's go to Jill, who's been waiting a long time.
Jill in Ithaca, New York, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, Jill.
Thank you, Mark.
Hello, Mark.
Well, it's interesting you talk about celebrity culture because Mr. Limbaugh is part of that.
So that's interesting you would point that out.
Yeah, and what are the chances, by the way, of rush videos being played in American grade schools?
If you can find me that school district, I will personally...
Well, the parents that would want that are the ones that are probably going to keep their kids out of school, if that's legal or not, on the first day.
I mean, all the president is probably going to say.
And if George Bush addressed children, I wouldn't have been upset.
I would have checked it out, but I wouldn't have been upset.
Mr. Obama is probably just going to, you know, try to coax them to do well in school.
I don't think that's so horrible.
He is the president.
He did win, which some people just seem to forget.
Yeah, but no, no, let's, because that gets to the this this gets to the heart of the the matter here.
The president of the United States is not an absolute monarch.
He is someone who, and this is why he, long before there was an official amendment constraining presidents to serve two terms only, it was understood, it was understood that presidents only serve two terms because they came from the people and they returned to the people, as Calvin Coolidge, a great citizen president, said.
And there's no more moving sight.
It has more power and impact on me than any of the great monuments to great kings and emperors than to see Calvin Coolidge's simple granite headstone exactly the same as the seven generations of Coolidges before him, because it makes the point that he understands he is not an absolute monarch.
He is not a personality cult.
He simply is a citizen representative.
He governs on behalf of the people, and he is not the sovereign, but he is the temporary custodian of our interests.
Yes.
And well, come on, not just yeah, what about yay-go?
We're going to do the monosyllables.
No, it's not what our, what is, is, and unfortunately, I don't like it.
However, our country has devolved into becoming somewhat of a celebrity culture, and I find it offensive myself, but that's what is.
You can't fight what is at once.
You have to work on it.
Okay, now, Jill, you originally called because I think you disagreed with my view of the simpletons in Wyoming who didn't seem to understand that the health care deal that they were being offered by the government was in fact in their interest.
Anyone, the public option, it's an option.
The word option means choice.
No one is being forced into anything.
People do need a choice.
And that's what this is.
This is what is the underlying factor.
Bill has not been passed.
There's different forms to it.
Well, wait a minute then.
Why is it that people in rural states and a lot of other states too, as we see on these tea parties, why are they so overwhelmingly opposed to it?
Because you're getting a select group of people.
It's a select group.
The American people voted for Barack Obama because he was going to bring change.
And one of those changes is an option to their insurance care.
I don't want to have somebody like Stephen Helmsley, one of the CEOs of an insurance company, making $700 million while people are turned away by insurance.
It happens all the time.
And anyone who's listening to the show knows that.
They know if it's not them, they know of someone who's been able to do it.
But wait a minute.
You say this is a self-selecting group of the Tea Parties.
The numbers on the polls aren't self-selecting.
They're entirely representative.
And they're showing an ever greater hostility to the governmentalization of health care.
Well, part of that, just part of it, is because those people listen to people like Rush and Glenn Beck and Michael Savage, because those people are tired on some level by corporations.
Right, so like...
Corporations do not want to beck and everyone else, we're all on the payroll of the OS.
In some form you are.
Definitely.
Rush has a corporate debt.
My niece just saw it.
The average person has a corporate.
It's flying over our house now just to taunt her.
What is, what's the, look, the thing, this is where, this is where, Jill, I part company from you.
You're in many ways a charming person.
But the assumption...
The assumption.
No, I can tell that.
You've got that.
I like your voice.
I like your voice.
If the call screener has taken your number, I may call you after the show.
You're in Ithaca.
That's not far from New Hampshire.
You seem like a very charming person.
But what is wrong is the assumption of bad faith.
The assumption of bad faith.
That somehow those of us who want dynamic private health care in the United States.
What's so dynamic about turning people away because they can't afford the premium?
What's so dynamic about that?
The thing about your arguing there, what you're actually getting to is the difference between health care and health treatment.
Health treatment, you don't get turned away.
I have seen people in the Dominion of Canada and the United Kingdom, including my own relatives, who do get turned away, even though they've been taxed up to the hilt to pay for it.
On the other hand, I had someone staying with me who got taken sick and I thought she was having a stroke.
She's a foreigner, doesn't have any, she's not paying the $700 million salary check for any American insurer.
And I took her to the hospital and they did more tests on her in the two hours that she was in that hospital than she'd had in the United Kingdom all the time she'd been living there and seeing the doctor every month.
There's a difference between health care and health treatment.
And health treatment, Americans have access to it and have the best available state-of-the-art health treatment.
But not all Americans have access.
I disagree with you.
And I was just in Nova Scotia, Canada, where my father-in-law had fusion surgery on his back.
He's 87.
Right.
And the Canadian doctors did it, and it was taken care of.
Well, then, in that case, well, just a minute, Jill.
In that case, why are hospitals, have hospitals in Detroit just signed an agreement with the government of Ontario to provide services that the Ontario government health care plan can't provide?
Why is it that if you're in Windsor, Ontario, and you need an angioplasty, you have to go to Detroit?
Because possibly certain things are done in this country.
Oh, right.
So like angioplasty, it's a cultural thing, is it?
Canadians can't just can't handle the angioplasty thing, right?
Well, Mark.
It's like female circumcision in Sudan.
It's just not a local feature of life, is it?
It's just a matter of time.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
My father-in-law could not find, my sister-in-law was the one who looked for an American doctor to do the spinal fusions.
The man is 87, so of course it's a very delicate operation.
They could not find an American doctor to do it.
The Canadian doctor did it and did it well.
And thank God the man's recovering and may be playing golf pretty soon.
Well, I'm glad for your father-in-law, and I'm happy for him.
But when we talk about backs, for example, and spines, that's a very interesting thing.
I had a letter from a reader the other day who is in Scotland, and he wants an x-ray for his back.
He can't get an x-ray for his back because, in a sense, his back has no individual identity.
A government bureaucrat has ruled that you can't x-ray backs in Scotland.
Don't ask me why.
It's just they've got a government bureaucrat has allocated a sum of money to backs, Scottish backs in general, and that budget that is out, that line item in the budget for Scottish backs does not extend to the cost of an x-ray.
And that's one thing that people in Wyoming get when you think that they're voting against their self-interest, that somehow they're too dumb to understand that Obama's got their best interests at heart.
They understand that in fact, in fact, what happens is that governmentalization destroys the concept of self-interest.
You don't have any self-interest.
Obama decides, when Obama decides what your self-interest is, it is by definition no longer self-interest.
And that's like that Scotsman and his back.
That Scotsman thinks he knows what his back needs, but a bureaucrat has ruled that in fact his back has no self-interest.
They're only the collective interests of Scottish backs.
And that's what people understand.
All the Rube Hicks in the tar paper shacks in Wyoming and everywhere else understand.
That the price for letting Obama make all the decisions about your so-called self-interest is that in the end you no longer have self-interest.
You no longer have self-interest.
By definition, once the government is making decisions about key aspects of your life, self-interest becomes an obsolescent concept.
But that's what the insurance companies in this country are doing presently.
So the insurance companies, and I'm not going to disclaim that.
No, no, but wait a minute.
Wait a minute, Jill.
Just two thoughts here, two thoughts here.
First off, nobody says, look, you're with Mr. Hard-hearted insurance company of Pocatello.
And that guy's on the $700 million and he's flying around in his corporate jet and you're lying there waiting for your angioplasty, but you didn't read clause 734 of the contract, so you can't have an angioplasty.
In the end, in the end, what every American can do is say, nuts to that, I'm out of here, and go somewhere else, including writing a check if they want the angioplasty.
They still have that freedom.
In Scotland and in Canada and in other countries, you can't do that.
That's why those angioplasty patients from Windsor, Ontario are in Detroit.
They have to leave the country.
They have to leave the country to exercise their rights as freeborn citizens because that guy with the angioplasty on his heart, effectively, the government has nationalized his heart.
They say, no, you don't have any say in that.
Our bureaucrat does.
And that's the difference, Jill.
Who's been talking lately?
Her husband died from, I believe it was bladder cancer because the insurance companies would not take care of him.
There are a lot of, unfortunately, a lot of people.
You have a range of options here.
There's a ton of people who, there's a ton of people here.
This is the point to take away, Jill.
If I have to come round, get your number from the call screener and come round and explain it to you in person, I'm willing to do it.
There are multiple ways in America.
You can have insurance company A, insurance company B, insurance company C. You can have no insurance.
You can write a check.
You can, in the end, decide you're going to have to sell your car to get the treatment, or you can decide to dispense with the treatment.
You're a free person.
You can make multiple decisions.
Multiple decisions.
In government systems, there's only one decision, and it's made by a bureaucrat.
And if it's chest pains and you need the angioplasty, and you're like the poor young 22-year-old guy in Rivier des Prairie, Quebec, who went round there, and the bureaucrat said he hadn't brought his government card with him, even though he was in the computer, and they sent him home, he collapsed and keeled over and died.
And he was the only way, he's the only source of getting an angioplasty in Quebec, is the government.
There's just one.
There's a monopoly.
There's a monopoly provider.
There's no monopoly here.
There are choices here.
And that's what I want to keep.
Thanks for your call, Jill.
We got to move on, I'm afraid.
The Rush Limb will show more on the EIB network straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Let's quickly go to Brian in Salt Lake City.
Brian, we don't have much time, but you are on the air.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Mark, nice talking to you.
I just listening.
You know, these people, if they can't afford healthcare, they need to get a job and they need to make payments.
We cannot rely on the government.
This is why our children are growing the way they are.
They have no responsibility now.
That's a great point, Brian.
And you're right.
Basically, in the end, you know, healthcare costs what it does, and we have to be able to afford it.
But actually, I'm always surprised when you break it down how affordable it is.
I was talking about this lady I had then with me, and we had to go to emergency.
She had a CAT scan, she had x-rays, she had blood work done.
We got a bill.
They sent it along a couple of weeks later for like $350.
Yeah, that's a lot of money.
But compared to what?
Compared to what?
Compared to eating in those restaurants in Chicago we were talking about?
Compared to the costier cable package?
Healthcare, healthcare is something that people should pay for and should understand in market terms.
Because if you're not prepared to spend $350 on your life, on your life, because, well, that's a bit much, and I was planning to spend it on my cable package, you're not functioning as a fully adult human being.
That's exactly why healthcare should remain in the private sector and as private individual decisions.
And yes, stupid people will make stupid decisions and ultimately they will die beyond that because of that.
But the price of insulating themselves from the realities of adulthood is too high.
By definition, that becomes a totalitarian society, even if it's a beguilingly soft, fluffy, nice, soft-focused totalitarian society.
It's your body.
Take care of it.
If you don't, you'll die.
It's that easy.
But it is something that you should be taking in a fully formed citizen of a free society should be able to take care of that himself without a distant government stepping in and doing it doing it for him.
Mark Stein in for Rush more in a moment.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Well, I got a little too excited talking to Jill for Ithaca there.
I think I could use an angioplasty myself after that.
Although, fortunately, it's only a three-year wait for that in Canada.
So I should be fixed up real soon.
I'm here tomorrow, and then Walter Williams is going to be taking care of business on Friday, and Rush comes back on Monday fighting fit.
But remember, don't get annoyed with the Jill from Ithaca.
We've got to convert them one by one.
That's the secret, folks.
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