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Oct. 30, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 30, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my fellow citizens and fellow Americans.
You are tuned to America's Truth Detector.
America's Doctor of Democracy.
This is the EIB Network, and it is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Telephone number, open line Friday, 800-282-2882.
The email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
When we go to the phones on Open Line Friday, whatever you want to talk about is fine, but you gotta be honest.
You cannot lie about what you want to talk about.
You don't have to lie to get on this program.
Not on Friday.
I want to go back.
I want to go back to audio sound by number 25, the White House press briefing this afternoon.
Bill Plant from CBS Pravda talking to Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary.
Remember now last June, Biden was on Meet the Press.
Yeah, we just guessed wrong on the stimulus.
Bush left us in such bad shape.
We had no idea.
We just guessed wrong on the number of jobs it created.
But today at 3 o'clock, they're gonna release the actual number of jobs created and saved.
Because of Obama's Obama stimulus plan.
And here's here's here's how this uh we learned this.
Bill Plant with a question and answer session here with uh Robert Gibbs.
You're making these jobs that you say have been counted so carefully sound like a scientific number that can be uh observed scientifically.
At three o'clock, you'll be able to observe it holistically on your computer.
Each one of these so-called saved or created jobs represents a concrete new job in saved job, yes.
Or two part-time job.
Yes.
Your critics don't believe that it's possible to count anything like that.
Our critics didn't think the recovery plan would help the economy grow, but I think the critics, if you put 50 cents in the newspaper machine and pull the arm, uh you'll see that uh our critics uh haven't been so right.
All right, so you heard him.
They've they've got a scientific formula they can prove, document every job saved, and every job created.
Now I'm close to losing my temper here.
Mr. Gibbs, your boss has destroyed millions of jobs.
Your boss, Barack Obama has destroyed millions of small businesses.
Your boss, Mr. Gibbs, and you a party to this, because you promote this disaster.
Your boss has destroyed the lives of countless American families.
What is this excrement about jobs saved?
Or jobs created.
Barack Obama is destroying this economy.
He is destroying management, he's destroying assembly lines, he's destroying opportunity, he's destroying hope.
He's destroying liberty for future generations.
He hasn't created or saved a damn thing.
Barack Obama destroys, he destroys and destroys.
The only jobs he's created are government jobs.
He stole money, just like Pelosi is figuring and planning to steal money.
With no accountability, Obama has stolen money from the private sector and paid people to work for him so that he can steal more.
This administration is engaging in unconstitutional acts.
This country does not provide constitutionally for a Pazar to tell anybody what they can and cannot earn.
This Constitution does not provide for the government to mandate its citizens by anything.
He is destroying homeownership.
Barack Obama is.
He is destroying entrepreneurship.
He is destroying the industrial heart of this nation.
He is trying to destroy the military.
Barack Obama creates nothing but havoc and unsettledness and angst.
And Peggy Noonan disheartenment.
Barack Obama is a destroyer, not a creator.
The only people creating and saving is us, the American people.
The American people are doing everything they can to save their jobs.
Small businesses are doing everything they can to hold on to their employees and maybe hire some more.
The economic heart of this engine is its people.
It is not Barack Obama.
The intellectual heart of this nation is our people.
It is not Barack Obama.
The last best hope of this nation is our people.
It is not Barack Obama.
Well, Barack Obama is an obstacle in the way of the people who make this country work.
And it is an insult to my intelligence.
It is audacious for this man and his administration to be putting out fraudulent phony numbers about the numbers of jobs he has created or saved.
We have lost 3.3 million jobs since Barack Obama was inaugurated.
That's if you want to talk about lost, created, saved, you can add up all the created and saved you want, and you can try this phony game.
Well, it'd be even worse if we hadn't done what we did.
It is as bad as it is and getting worse precisely because of what Obama has done.
If there is any growth in this country, and if there is any hope, it is from the American people.
Not from Barack Obama.
Not from Nancy Pelosi.
Not from Harry Reid.
Not from Barney Frank.
We are living in the most unreal times.
Government is to exp is to blame for whatever problems we have.
And now with Pelosi out there at her massive health care scheme, which is nothing more than a attack on liberty and freedom and some of the most outrageous tax increases that you have ever heard about.
Piled on top of the mess that they've already created.
No, my friends, this administration isn't creating anything.
This administration isn't saving anything.
This administration is destroying.
on purpose.
This administration said we want to remake America.
We want to remake it.
They don't like the way America was founded.
They don't like the way America was constituted.
None of Obama's buddies that he grew up with, influenced by, none of them like the way this country was founded, the way it was established, the way it's constituted.
And they are in the process of changing.
These elections next week are important because they'll be the first ones to Since people have finally awakened and found out just exactly who and what Obama and his administration are.
Here are some samples.
I have them on one page of some of the tax increases in the Pelosi bill.
And not just tax increases, but you remember yesterday Obama was out somewhere talking to small business people and said, Hey, if you like your plan, and if you like what you're paying for it, if you like your benefits, keep it.
Nothing's going to change.
Page 94.
Pelosi plan prohibits the sale of private individual health insurance policies beginning in 2013.
Forcing individuals to purchase coverage through the federal government.
2013, after the 2012 presidential election.
In 2013, there is no private insurance allowed.
Page 110 requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan.
And if the Hyde Amendment were ever not renewed, would require the plan to fund elective abortions.
Page 11.
Section 223 establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats, the Health Benefits advisory committee to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase and would likely require all Americans to subsidize and purchase plans that cover any abortion.
The death panels are back, by the way.
Page 211.
Section 321 establishes a new government-run health plan that, according to nonpartisan actuaries at the Lewin Group, would cause as many 114 million Americans to lose their existing coverage.
Page 225.
Section 330 permits but does not require members of Congress to enroll in government-run health care.
So they'll be able to opt out of it and maintain their Cadillac plans.
Page 225, Section 345, includes language requiring verification of income for individuals wishing to receive federal health care subsidies under the bill.
While the bill includes a requirement for applicants to verify their citizenship, it does not include a similar requirement to verify applicants' identity, thus encouraging identity fraud for undocumented immigrants and others wishing to receive taxpayer subsidized health benefits.
Page 297, Section 501 imposes a 2.5% tax on all people who do not purchase bureaucrat approved, and that's in quotes.
The tax would apply on individuals with incomes under 250,000.
Thus breaking a promise, central promise of Obama's campaign.
Page 313, Section 512 imposes an 8% tax on jobs for firms that cannot afford to purchase bureaucrat approved health coverage.
According to an analysis by Harvard Professor Kate Biker, such a tax would place millions at substantial risk of unemployment, with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts.
Section 551 on page 336 imposes additional job killing taxes in the form of a half trillion dollar surcharge, more than half of which will hit small businesses.
According to a model developed by President Obama's senior economic advisor, such taxes could cost up to five and a half million jobs.
This is the thing we talked about yesterday, $500,000 for single filers, uh million dollars the income surcharge on those earners.
A lot of those people are small business owners, and they file on the personal 1040 form.
Section 520, Section 1161 cuts more than 150 billion dollars from Medicare Advantage plans.
Page 773, Section 1401 establishes a new center for comparative effectiveness research.
This bill includes no provisions preventing the government-run health plan from using such research to deny access to life-saving treatments on cost grounds, similar to Britain's National Health Service, which denies patient uh treatments costing more than 35,000 pounds.
And page 1174, Section 1802B, includes provisions entitled Taxes on Certain Insurance Policies to Fund Comparative Effectiveness Research, breaking Pelosi's promise that we will not be taxing health benefits in any bill that passes the House.
And this, you know, is just the scratch the surface look.
Because there are 1900 pages.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
Yeah, the death panels are still in the bill.
I get some emails.
You won't find the words death panel in the Wake up, folks.
I mean, it's even being reported by state-controlled associated press.
End of life counseling remains in the bill.
The Medicare end of life planning provision that 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said was tantamount to death panels for seniors, is staying in the Pelosi bill.
The uh provision allows Medicare to pay for voluntary counseling to help beneficiaries deal with the complex and painful decisions families face when a loved one is approaching death.
When House Democrats proposed this summer to pay doctors for end-of-life counseling, it touched off a wave of suspicion and anger, and they took it out of there.
They said it wasn't going to happen, and it was never in there.
So now it's in there.
Let's not forget what was it, Newsweek?
The case for pulling the plug on Granny.
Back to the phones.
Elliot in Newark, New Jersey.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Great to have you here.
Oh, thank you.
Um, I just have uh about the Democrats.
I pretty much summed them up.
There's two types of Democrats.
There's the ignorant Democrat and the scammer.
The ignorant Democrats and the scammers.
That's pretty much it.
Well, uh, okay.
I mean, I uh that works.
Yep.
Thanks much.
Uh, where are we going next?
Uh Shannon in Kaiser, Oregon.
Welcome to the program.
Hello, Rush.
Nice to talk to you.
You bet.
Hey, I was wondering if you thought that maybe the uh smell was starting to wear off the rose here in um with the reference to uh these reports that have been coming out that aren't in total favor of the Obama's party.
I caution everyone against thinking that.
Uh-huh.
Please do not get caught in that trap.
Please do not allow any of your happiness or any of the validation of your own point of view to be uh uh brought about by the mainstream media agreeing with you.
There have always been instances where a sycophantic media in the tank for the Democrat takes a couple steps out of the pool now and then, and they're doing it here on these jobs numbers because this is this is patently ridiculous.
Saved and created, you've got a formula you can prove it.
I mean, everybody looks at here, we've done nothing but lose jobs.
We're going up to 10% unemployment pretty soon.
We've lost 3.3 million jobs.
These guys are coming out trying to say they've saved or created 3.3.
It's it's absurd, it is absurd on its face, it's insulting.
But bel at the end of the day, they're gonna be back in the Obama tank.
They're gonna be don't don't please do not ever believe the bloom is coming off the rose about state controlled media with Obama or any Democrat.
It just it isn't gonna happen.
I say you'll have sporadic instances of it, and but but the it doesn't mean success of anything when it when it's happening, because it's not permanent, it's temporary.
I was uh talking with Snerdley yesterday, saying, you know, Russia differs between the Republicans and Democrats.
Look at these Democrats.
Look at this energy in the middle.
One thing I admire about them, they get up every day and they try to get 15,000 things done and they never stop and they just keep coming at us, they coming at us, coming at us, coming.
Where do the Republicans or Republicans, even when they ran the House?
They did not try to get all this stuff done this fast.
I said, yes, they did.
People have forgotten.
Early on in the Republican House, starting in 1990 uh five when they when they were assembled and sworn in.
I mean, these guys they balanced the budget in two or three years.
They they they they were um making tracks.
Here's the big difference.
The big difference is that when the Republicans were doing that, guess who starred on television all day and all night?
The same Democrat cast of characters that you see now.
And what were they doing?
They were lying.
They said Republicans wanted to starve children.
There were no school lunch cuts, but it got started that there were school lunch cuts.
And then they had little kids sending in messages to the Newt Gingrich and the board.
Please don't starve us, please don't starve us.
And the media went right along with it.
Even when the Republicans are in power, the media's objective is to get them out of power.
The Democrats remain the stars.
So the Republicans the problem here is that it is really tough to withstand that.
Uh when you've got the media and the Democrat Party aligned against you, proclaiming everything you say is a lie, that you hate this group, you hate that group, you're trying to starve this group, you're trying to send this group out on the street homeless and so forth while you're going about your agenda and put you on defense, and you simply, well, no, this is not what we're doing.
We're it's it's uh, you know, it's it's a psychological thing.
I once postulated a theory.
I knew was gonna happen.
The Republicans had not been the majority party and thus have had had had no power for 40 years in the House of Representatives.
And all of a sudden, on a dime, they're the majority.
And in many cases, it was because there were a lot of freshmen in the House who had never been there.
Now we still had Democrat president that the press was enamored of and loved.
But it was hard for these Republicans to shift on a dime from being in the minority to having no power to all of a sudden having it.
The Democrats consider it their birthright.
Liberals consider it their birthright.
It is their attitude.
They awaken with it, they go to sleep with it, they dream about it.
Even when they're out of power, they act like they're in power, and the press helps them.
So my my point here is that w when this is stopped, and when there are enough Republicans in uh in the House and Senate to effectively put the brakes on uh on all of this, and if someday they ever get a majority back in the House, it's gonna they're gonna have to really learn to put up with what they know is coming.
The press is gonna hate them, lie about them, and try to get them out of office.
They'll be propping up the Democrats, the Democrats will be the primary guests on the Sunday shows, the Democrats will be the primary guests of the cable shows at night, the Democrat message will be the message of the country.
Um will start getting messages of the tyranny of the majority.
Uh the minority must have an equal say here while Pelosi is shutting Republicans out totally and Obama is shutting Republicans out totally.
It's gonna take a new breed of cat to put up with life in Washington as members of the majority.
And if you think to tie this all together, if you think, or if you're gonna define ultimate success as the media supporting what we want and what we say what we do, forget it.
For you are ever, forever, going to be miserable and unhappy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
I'm looking for it.
Hang on now.
I'm gonna find it here in just a second.
I might have just found it.
Nope, I didn't just mind it.
And I had it here all ready to go, too.
I can't find it.
Well, I'll find it.
Let's go to the phones.
Uh Nan uh Naugatuck, Connecticut.
I'm sorry, this is uh Patty.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I wanted to just talk about one thing, and I'm gonna try and talk about it as fast as I can because there's so much to it, but it's the cap and trade one segment about carbon being the new derivative for Wall Street.
It's my understanding in reading some of the things that I have that Wall Street is is pushing this cap and trade bill, and they're looking to set up a new system now for carbon derivatives.
The cap and trade will actually make atmospheric carbon a market value commodity, and the cap and trade will allow them to make this a derivative by once it's into law.
They also predict that the cap and trade will be the biggest of any commodities derivative within the next five years, estimated at approximately two trillion dollars.
Now wait a second here.
Uh I thought Geitner and Barney Frank uh and all these other watchdogs had eliminated uh derivatives because they're too whiskey.
Yes.
But they're not.
Because I understand that derivatives in 2007 had a market value of six hundred and eighty-one trillion dollars, and that would be ten times the gross domestic product of the entire economy.
And the derivatives, 90 percent of the time, I understand, um, they're not regulated.
There's no paper trail, and there's um they don't even know exactly how much the derivative market is.
They're estimating a worldwide derivative market to 300 to 400 trillion dollars.
And it's my understanding that the cap and trade will allow two things to happen.
The derivative markets will be based on two instruments.
The first instrument will be allowing the carbon will permit um it will be sort of like the dust and bolts of the cap-and-trade scheme.
The cap and trade government would would issue permits that would allow a company to emit a certain amount of greenhouse gases.
Companies that emit can abide from another company that didn't admit as much, and then there will also be the carbon offsets, which will allow companies to emit greenhouse gases in excess of federally mandated Cap if they invest in projects that cut emissions somewhere else in the world.
That is exactly right.
That's exactly how cap and trade were.
This is an old this expansion of the old pollution credits that uh that have been around for uh for a long time.
That the government will arbitrarily establish a carbon emissions level for every business.
And uh, and then they'll start trading these emissions as they're either going to go above the limit or be beneath it.
And you're right, Wall Street, predominantly I think Goldman Sachs will be right in there mediating and and and profiting on both sides of these trades.
And I understand it'll be international.
Well, yeah, but that there was a there was a warning from somebody uh a guy at the University of Montana who is a Nobel Prize winner, and he's a climatologist.
I'm having a metal block on his name.
But he said this, he he says climate or cap and trade will destroy the U.S. economy.
It will destroy it regardless.
But especially if the rest of the world doesn't join us, because we'll all we're gonna be doing is penalizing ourselves and essentially putting a cap on our own growth.
And if the rest of the world doesn't do that, then we are cooked.
And uh this is what the the climate conference in Copenhagen in December is largely, not totally, but largely about this.
The cap and trade program, and and uh Obama they're probably not gonna have cap and trade by the time he goes over there.
So they're lowering expectations.
No, no, it's it's it's it's every bit as bad as you describe.
It's every bit as damaging to this economy as uh as Obama's health care plan is.
Pelosi's whatever.
Chad in Raleigh, North Carolina, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Mega's Rush.
I I just want to let you know that I listened last week when they were uh your staff was um kidding you about you're the only one talking about ZyCam.
Yeah, yeah, they why how come you're the only one talking about using it?
Well, uh let me tell you my story.
About two weeks ago, my wife started getting sick, stuffy nose, cough and all that stuff, and usually I'm the one, if she gets it within a couple days, I get the same thing by get worse.
So I just remembered you know everything you said about Zockiam, so I'll start taking it, and past two weeks, I've got nothing except for a scratchy throat one day.
Uh-huh.
There we have it.
It works.
It works.
An on-air live testimonial from Raleigh, North Carolina, where there's a lot of cold virus all the time.
Yes.
Statistically proven.
And and so, well, I I look at Chad, I appreciate that.
Nothing better.
Thank you, Rush.
Than this kind of a and look at what led to it.
I did a wonderful mention of Zycam, and Dawn says, how come you're the only one you ever talk about using it?
So that's why Chad calls in.
Zycam, he's is exactly right.
If you uh I love this stuff.
I love ever since I first discovered this, because I hate colds.
I hate them.
Most of the time they're not bad enough to keep you from work, but they just make you miserable.
I I turn into a big baby with one.
I hate getting them.
I make everybody around me miserable.
And so I discovered this stuff, and I was told if you use it, Zycam, if you use it, the first thought, first realization that you may be getting a cold, that it'll shorten the duration, and uh uh it will lessen the symptoms.
It doesn't cure it, doesn't get rid of it uh totally, but it it can really stop a cold in its tracks and keep it from getting worse, and it comes in a whole bunch of different flavors and forms.
It's available everywhere.
It's Z-I-C-A-M.
And it works.
Mark in Lakeland, Florida.
Great to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Megadeth's Rush.
You bet.
Hey, you know, I just was uh I chime in it to my wife this morning that every time I turn the TV on, Obama's having another press conference.
I I'm wondering when he spends time in the Oval Office.
Uh I had a recommendation since Billy Mays is dead, maybe he could take his place on Pitch Man.
They're about on TV at the same time pushing worthless stuff.
It seems odd to me that every time I turn around, he's on TV.
Uh I like it.
People start to laugh at the guy.
Yeah, you know.
It's crazy.
I just want to joke with my wife.
I said, you know, he could take Billy May's place and uh you know, be on pitch man, you know, but design something to do that's worthwhile.
Yeah, but there's a big difference.
Billy May has told the truth.
If you bought something from Billy Mays, it worked.
If he bought something Billy Mays, it showed a profit.
His company's all showed a profit.
There's no comparison.
I think Billy Mays any day.
Billy Mays.
I love the guy.
Never heard of OxyClean until Billy Mays came along.
But there's a huge difference to Billy Mays.
Billy Mays unfortunately died, and he's still right more often than Obama is.
I gotta take a brief time out.
We'll do that.
We'll be back right after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Well, look who got through.
Our good friend, the uh Reverend Dr. Ken Hutchison from Seattle, uh former player National Football League and now a man of the cloth in Seattle.
Hutch, great to have you here.
What's up, buddy?
How are you doing, my man?
Pretty good.
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, fine.
Hey, that was great from the Senator from Our.
I just want to congratulate you.
He laid it out on goodale.
Steve King did a I I was stunned when I saw that.
That was uh it was it was a fabulous job.
I was very moved by it.
I tell you then that's the kind of defense that needs to be done of like what's going on in America.
And Rush, you know I sent you that article that I was asked to write.
And I just laid it out on the truth, and it's too much to talk about on the air, but I have sent it out to places like the American thinker, sent it out to an American Spectator, Washington Post.
But it's things that needs to be said, it needs to be said why they attacking you.
I'm not gonna let it go.
I'm gonna get to the bottom of this.
They have attacked my friend and brother.
There's things needs to be said to African Americans that they need to hear that they don't want to hear.
That's in the article.
That needs to be things needs to be said to America about why the white males being attacked, and that's coming from an Af African American.
And I'm gonna get this out.
Yeah, it needs to be said.
I don't want you, he sent me he sent me the column that he wrote.
Now he was asked by I mentioned the publication.
He was asked to submit it when they got it.
It was too hot.
It was it was too hot.
It was too hot.
So he's shopping it to other places.
And uh, did you say the American thinker just now that you've sent it to them?
Yes, I said you send it to the Washington Post.
All they'll have to do is read it, Hutch, and they'll be blown away.
I mean, they I don't think they'll ever, ever publish it.
But um if if if if it's too hot for anybody, uh we'll put it on my website.
Absolutely.
I'm we'll get him a chance to try, bro.
But I just want you to know I'm not dropping this.
I appreciate it.
I love you.
Love you, bro.
Now I want you now, I want you to give you gotta tease it better than this because you have you don't I don't want you to define it, but you have uh a three-word phrase to describe uh what is happening here to the white male in America.
The minority thought pattern.
The minority thought pattern is running America today.
Run the minority thought pattern is running America.
That's the central theme of this.
Yes.
Not what happened to me at the NFL.
That's just a an example of of the of the minority thought pattern in action.
I mean it's hot.
And uh wait till it gets out, bruh.
We're gonna shake up America on this one.
My computer display was smoking.
Hey, who have you?
Take care, man.
Wait, hey, wait, before before you go, do you care about Favre going back to Green Bay this Sunday?
Are you uh you have to follow it?
You have a thought on a game.
Oh, I I hey, bruh, I cannot wait for the game to be played.
The fans I think the fans are gonna be uh have mixed emotions.
You know what mixed emotions are, right?
Well it's a mixed emotion when your mother-in-law just went over the cliff in your new catalog.
Yeah, with a tongue caught in a seatbelt.
I know.
Uh I do know you know Ryan Longwell is Farbes best buddy on the Vikings.
He was his best golf buddy when they were both in the Packers.
And and Longwell, when he went back with the Vikings, he's a kicker for the Vikings, went back to Green Bay.
He said he was stunned at the loud, never-ending booze that he got.
He's the kicker.
Well, I I think the fans are gonna be a little bit more receptive of farm because I think they know he got a little shafting going on when he left.
Yeah, maybe so.
Maybe so.
Maybe so.
You got an out you gotta how's the game gonna come out?
Well, you know Minnesota's gonna take it.
Oh, there you have it.
Minnesota's It's in the cards.
A season sweep of the Packers for the Vikings.
Hutch, I do love you, Bub.
I'm glad I'm glad you called, and and uh good luck on on finding somebody to publish your hot piece.
All right, my brother, thank you.
You bet the minority thought pattern.
Who's next on this program?
We have anybody ready?
Jacksonville, Florida.
Hello, Ed, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hello, Rush.
This is uh Ed.
I'm an unemployed electrician right now.
Uh I know that when the government doesn't get its way, they threaten to shut down the government and not approve a budget and do all kinds of things and say we're gonna suffer.
Well, I think it's time that we do like Gande or Lefalenced in Poland and all the workers of this country from construction workers to truck drivers to small business people to service people to uh cab drivers, bus drivers, and all this, take a week off and shut down the country for a while and see how the government likes that.
Interesting.
You know, uh it's interesting you say this, and uh another football story.
The Cleveland Browns are hosting somebody to the uh don't I don't remember who they're playing, but it's at home, and the fans are just they're they're they're upset that the uh the the Browns have since they were reconstituted after the original Browns went to Baltimore.
The fans, the some some group of fans is trying to convince as many fans as possible to show up after the first quarter so that the game opens on TV with empty seats.
Because I think it's a I don't know who it well, whatever.
Maybe it's not this game is I think they're on a night game coming up or something.
So that's a it's a variation of of what you're talking about.
That would be a fascinating thing to see if it ever happened if everybody just did a John Galt for a week.
That's from Atlas Shrugged.
The hell with it.
The hell with this and stay home.
Smoke cigars, go play golf.
But you understand something real quick.
It's very difficult not to engage in economic activity.
You have to eat.
So that means you have to go to the grocery store.
What if they close?
Uh you can't go to the White House and start eating sweet potatoes from Michelle's Garden.
Uh so what do you it's it would be very, very tough to do.
That's that's why it is amazing.
Obama is succeeding in this.
And it's uh it's it's devastating and it's disappointing as it can be.
You know how the um government always gives itself uh opt-out options.
But you know, we never have any option to opt out.
I'd love to opt out of social security, but I can't.
I would love to opt out of Medicare.
I would love to opt out of all kinds of garbage.
I'd love to say no, it ain't for me, but I have to.
As we all do when they come up with these mandates and these entitlements.
My grandfather tried to send his social security check back.
He they would not take it.
Anyway, uh better take a brief break here, come back and wrap it up.
Right after this.
Don't go away.
Oh, yeah.
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times.
I keep mentioning to bring this up.
Let me see if I can squeeze this in here real quick.
Andrew Repkin, New York Times said the law should be used to pressure couples into having only one child.
Um he was at talking about carbon footprints.
Uh if people are big polluters, then have fewer people.
Uh and I said, well, okay, if if if if this is what's really he said he was, he said he was engaging in a thought experiment.
He wasn't really advocating it.
Well, what's the difference?
And I said, Well, look, if if that's if that's uh what you want to do, then show us you know you you guys always tell us what oh everybody else ought to do.
We should not have kids.
We shouldn't do that, we shouldn't drive this, we shouldn't drive.
Why don't you show us how it's done?
And I said, just go die.
Well, he got profoundly offended.
He said he's gotten hate mail.
He said that I should apologize that he to him and his family.
His uh His older son is a regular listener, currently serving in the Israeli military.
Um there's Mr. Revkin, for crying out loud, if I'm making a point.
I'm not advocating death.
I do not advocate death on this program.
I do not advocate control over anybody else's life.
And all these people out there trying to exert control over ours is starting to bubble over in me.
See you Monday, folks.
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