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Dec. 23, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 23, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Merry Christmas America.
Seasons greetings.
America's anchorman is away today.
And this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in, Mark Stein.
I'm here today.
We have a best of rush Christmas Eve tomorrow.
EIB approved Christmas music on Christmas Day.
I'll be here Monday with Walter Williams coming in later in the week.
Mark Davis on Wednesday.
I'm here Monday.
Is that right?
Monday and Monday and Tuesday.
So I'm here Christmas Bank Holiday Monday, as they say in more advanced socialist states.
Christmas Bank Holiday Monday, I'll be here.
And Tuesday.
And then Wednesday, Mark Davis comes in.
Thursday, Walter Williams, the great Walter Williams, will be here.
So terrific lineup, I like to think.
And actually, I don't know why I'm laughing at.
What is the saddest light of that?
Anyway, Warbists Kill Christmas.
Have you seen this thing?
This is amazing.
This bear, these people, the Build-A-Bear, the Build-A-Bear chain.
It's an American chain, teddy bear chain, toys chain, Build-A-Bear.
And their current Christmas promotion involves Santa waking up on Christmas Eve.
This is far worse than Rudolph.
Rudolph, that was just like foggy night.
So Santa needed a red-nosed reindeer in a hurry.
And he was lucky to be able to find one.
This is a nightmare scenario.
Santa wakes up on Christmas Eve.
The North Pole has melted.
The toys have sunk into the Arctic somewhere.
They're gone.
There's no Christmas anymore.
The girl elf says to him on this promotional video, Santa, it's gone.
The other elf goes, it's gone, it's gone.
Santa's going, what's gone?
And the girl elf says, tell him, the North Pole is gone.
It's gone.
And Santa goes, the polar bear then, Ella the polar bear says, the ice is melting, Santa.
And Santa goes, yes, my dear, we know the climate is changing.
There's bound to be a little melting.
And Ella goes, no, it's worse than that.
Santa, a lot worse than that.
The North Pole will be gone by Christmas.
And Ella the polar bear has to explain to Santa that we're not talking about next Christmas.
We're not talking about 10 years' time of Christmas.
We're not talking about Al Gore when Al Gore says that the polar ice will be gone five years.
No, Ella has to tell Santa that the North Pole will be gone by the day after tomorrow.
They're showing this to children.
This would be child abuse in any other scenario.
These kids are going to bed so, oh no, I'm not going to get anything for Christmas.
The entire North Pole has gone.
So Santa, I just saw Santa say there's no North Ice at the North Pole.
Everything's gone, I'm not going to get my, I wrote my note to Santa and it's just lying soggy at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.
Yeah, yeah.
Obviously a savvy kid will say, well, why can't you just swing by the factory in Shanghai and pick them up direct from there, Santa?
What's the big deal?
But, you know, if you're a more impressionable youngster, you'll be distraught.
You'll be devastated.
This is, as I said, in any other scenario, this would be child abuse.
This climate alarmism.
Now, you know, we've been talking about big government today.
I think one of the heartening things at this ludicrous Copenhagen summit is that you can reach a point where what's being contemplated is so insane that people will eventually go, whoa, let's hold on here a minute.
And luckily, that's what happened at Copenhagen.
What's disgraceful is, in fact, we relied on the Chinese Politburo to save us from ourselves.
The commies, Those guys in the pork pie hats and the hornrim spectacles, who was that guy, who was the head of the Politburo, who liked to sing Love Me Tender?
He was like Zheng Xiaoping's successor.
He liked to do Elvis impersonations.
Whatever he was.
Yeah, I think it was Zhang Zhao Mei.
I can't remember.
I'm like Obama.
I have Chairman Mao on my Christmas baubles, but the Johnny-come-latelys, I can't keep track of at all.
Anyway, one of these Chinese, we relied on the Chinese Politburo to save us from ourselves.
The free world, the functioning part of the world, the civilized world, was about to effectively vote to put a gun in its head.
And it was only because of China and India who said, hey here, you guys, you guys are really crazy and actually pulled us back from the cliff edge that Copenhagen collapsed and wasn't the disaster it was.
And I think that's heartening, that eventually big government can become so insane that people will reel back from it.
But it's empathetic and embarrassing that it actually needed the Chinese Politburo to save us from ourselves there.
I guess if there's like a common theme to what we've been talking about here in terms of the tanning bed and some of these other issues, it's that the small things, the small things are examples of where you're headed.
And where we're headed is to the same hyper-regulated destination as Europe.
And it's really important that so-called conservatives understand this, that it's transformative, that once you get this stuff in place, it can change the character of a people.
And the whole lesson, the whole story of the Western world since 1945 is that every time they're invited to trade liberty for so-called government security, free peoples, once free peoples, vote for government security all the time.
Now I'll tell you, I'll give you a personal angle on this.
I was at a family funeral a few days ago across the Atlantic.
And funerals are always black comedies of errors.
You know, you're upset and you're distraught, but terrible things, terrible things always happen at funerals.
And so in this case, I was like in the limo behind the hearse, and we pull up at this beautiful churchyard.
And it's a church built in the 11th century.
So it was built in the year 10 something or other.
So it's a thousand years old, this church.
Beautiful churchyard, idyllic scene.
And we're in there behind the hearse.
Everyone else has gone into the church and the family's behind the hearse.
And they bring out this thing called a, like, looks like a cart, a supermarket cart from Costco.
And I say to, just make it chit-chat, I say, hey, what's with, you know, what's with the supermarket cart?
And they go to one of the pallbearers.
And the pallbearer goes, oh, well, we have to put the coffin on the supermarket cart now to wheel it in.
And I go, wait a minute, what's the deal with that?
You're like Pelt pallbearers.
Don't you carry the coffin anymore?
And yeah, it was a beautiful, expensive coffin with the handles.
And the pallbearer goes to me, no, no, no, we're not allowed to carry the coffin anymore, mate.
It's elf and safety.
That's what they call it now in European Union health and safety regulations.
It has been ruled unsafe for a pallbearer to bear a paw.
And so the guy goes, so I'm thinking, I go, what do you mean health and safety?
You know, this is really the time you want to have a big argument, a bureaucratic argument.
It's like five minutes.
You know, the organist has been trying to stretch out the bark to Carter and Fugue now while vamping till ready while he's waiting for the coffin.
And so I'm saying, what do you mean, health and safety?
And he goes, well, the path is a bit uneven, mate.
So we're not allowed to carry the coffin down it.
The path's a bit uneven.
As I said, it was an 11th century church and this attractive little gravel path down to the church.
And I say, they've been burying people for a thousand years here.
The path has been uneven for a thousand years.
Why is it suddenly unsafe for you to carry the coffin down the path?
He goes, well, it's elf and safety, mate.
Elf and safety.
He keeps saying over and over.
So I look at my brother-in-law.
I look at my brother-in-law and I say, nuts to this.
We're not having the coffin brought in on a supermarket cart.
We'll take the coffin.
And the pallbearer at that point goes, you're not licensed pallbearers.
And at that stage, my brother-in-law turns to the pallbearer and says, well, what's the point of us getting a license to become a pallbearer?
All it licenses us to do is not to bear paws.
If you're a licensed pallbearer, you're not allowed to carry the coffin.
So he goes, well, we can't have this, mate.
We're the only ones.
So we have this showdown, and it's one of these things where it looks like we're going to be fighting over the coffin, like out of some freakish black comedy movie.
And eventually at that point, they all meet in a huddle and they agree to let us join them in carrying the coffin because if anything goes wrong and health and safety prosecute them for carrying the coffin into the church, then they can blame it on the unlicensed pallbearers, us who bullied them into.
And I said, fine, we'll go for that because by the time you sue me, I'll be in New Hampshire and New Hampshire is not going to extradite overseas to somebody for illegally bearing a paw without being a European Union accredited pallbearer.
And that's right.
And if they, yeah, if New Hampshire wanted to extradite me to Bermuda to live on the beach, that would be a much more different situation.
But this is what it's come to now.
Health and safety regulations in the European Union prevent you doing anything.
And what I find interesting about the public reaction is that they've got this phrase in Britain now.
Oh, it's elf and safety gone mad, mate.
When you tell anybody this story, if you said to the gal in the convenience store or the clerk at the railway station, they always respond, it's elf and safety gone mad, mate.
And it's because they've got a phrase for it now.
It's like they've got a catchphrase to sum up the bureaucratic madness.
They feel they don't actually have to do anything about it.
It's like, and that's as long as they've got this consoling catchphrase about the burdens of big government, they feel they don't have to do anything about it.
And that is the madness that is coming here.
Unless you draw the line against impositions by the state on trivial things like the tanning bed, if you don't draw the line at the tanning bed, you'll be fighting for far more fundamental things in the years ahead.
I don't know.
I can't recall whether Winston Churchill said we'll fight them on the beaches, we'll fight them on the landing grounds, we'll fight them on the tanning beds.
It's Churchill.
You can look up the speech.
He said it.
And that's what you have to do.
You have to resist the impositions because big government creeps in incrementally.
Itsy bitsy little regulations of every aspect of life and it adds up to the biggest government ever devised and all in the name of bogus stuff like health and safety.
It's what Roger Scruton in a terrific piece a couple of days ago calls totalitarian sentimentality.
Totalitarian sentimentality is a threat to free peoples and should be resisted at every level.
Lots more, and we'll take your calls straight ahead.
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Ah, lovely.
Carol of the bells.
Love that one.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Deanne in Hololulu.
What's that Hawaiian Christmas?
Melekalikilahu, whatever it is.
Do you know the Hawaiian Christmas song, Deanne?
No, but I can say melee kaliki maka.
Oh, that's right.
What was I saying?
I don't know, but it sounded good.
Yeah, as long as it doesn't mean something rude in Hawaiian.
Aloha, and you're having a fine day today, I must say.
Well, I was doing great until I said, get the hell out of my face in Hawaiian while singing along to the Hawaiian Christmas song there.
But I'm sorry about that.
My attempted Hawaiian outreach failed miserably.
But Deanne, it is great to...
HR, is Deanne anywhere on Rush's favourite female names list?
It's just outside the top 10 on Russia's female lane, but it's like three with a bullet on mine.
So Deanne, it's great to have you with us.
Merry Christmas.
And what did you want to talk about?
I wanted to talk about rationing of health care, and I want to compare it to the current education system in Hawaii.
Right now, there is a $486 million shortfall for education.
Therefore, my children have 17 furlough Friday days because they can't afford to send them to school.
You don't think they're going to have rationing with health care when they have it with education?
Something's wrong.
No, and the difference is that when a kid is told there's like a wait to get into school, so he'll have to go back home and wait for an appointment, the kid thinks, wow, that's great.
The difference is when you're howling in pain and you're told there's a wait to get seen by somebody, it's a lot worse for a grown-up than it is for a grade schooler.
Yes, it is.
But as my husband says, we're forced to homeschool because now they come home, they only have four days of school.
Wednesdays are half days, so really they only go to school three and a half days a week, almost every week, and they're not even going to school the required number of days.
No, and this is fascinating because what the state has done is essentially transferred the budget shortfall to you because your economic activity is impacted by having to have the children at home on the extra day.
So you have to make arrangements and whatever that would prevent you making whatever money and engaging in whatever activity you would normally do.
And what is amazing about that is that this country already has the second highest cost per pupil on education of any country in the developed world apart from Switzerland.
And with Switzerland, they don't have furlough Fridays and you get a hell of a good education.
Look at John Kerry.
He went to Swiss finishing school and it did marvels for him.
So you are really getting ripped off in Hawaii for three and a half days.
Plus they impact your economic activity on furlough Fridays.
That's what they call it, is it?
Furlough Friday?
It's called Furlough Friday.
Yep.
Amazing, amazing.
So with any luck, though, the good news is that your kids will grow up less indoctrinated than this.
So presumably they're not like most kids who are kind of terrified about the melting polar ice caps and all the rest of it because they're missing school on Fridays.
So they're not getting shown Al Gore's movie four times every semester.
No, I am thankful for that.
You're correct.
There are swings and roundabouts there.
That's what it's going to be like in that's going to be like at healthcare.
Furlough Friday.
Oh, there's no point coming into the emergency ward on a Friday.
So we're going to be here till 10 o'clock Monday.
That gunshot wound, just go home and just go home and keep dabbing it for the next 72 hours.
We'll get to you Monday.
You're right.
That's the way it's going to be, Deanne.
Thanks for calling and a Merry Christmas.
Tell me the word of that Hawaiian, in the Hawaiian Christmas song again.
Melee Kaliki Maca.
That's right.
Melee Kaliki Maca is the thing to say.
That's how it should have gone, isn't it?
Absolutely.
Yeah, yeah.
I was singing, wow, it's another furlough Friday in Hawaiian.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you, Deanne.
Let's go to Trish in Minneapolis.
Trish, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, Trish.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you too.
Thank you.
And what's your solution to the woes of the world?
My solution is let's all move to Nebraska.
Just think.
We could flood their roads, their freeways, schools, the hospitals, buildings, downtown tanning booths.
Wow.
You're right.
It's like Uyghurs to Bermuda, but thinking big.
We'd all relocate to Nebraska and we'd all be entitled to the Corn Husker kickback.
And that's the way you're right.
Depopulate the 49 states, move to Nebraska.
And I'm being serious.
I'm being serious here.
That actually would be good news for the federal government, even if we were all just to do it for like six weeks or two months, all go there just long enough to get the driver's licenses and make them realize what they're doing.
Everybody to Nebraska.
It's the great migration.
So let's depopulate the 49 states and we'll all be entitled to the Corn Husker kickback.
Thanks very much for your call, Trish.
Merry Christmas to you.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush on the EIB network, and lots more straight ahead on this pre-Christmas show.
Stick around.
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Do I still have time?
Have I misread the clock?
That's really bad.
I thought, Ivor, yeah, time for another couple of choruses.
Where was I?
I was going into my break.
What are we going to do?
Do you want another couple of choruses of the Hawaiian Christmas song?
Okay, this is a terrific Christmas record.
This is my Christmas gem from me to you.
You know, that got to number 41 on Amazon's chart last year.
So as I like to say, I'm not just a right-wing hate monger.
I'm also a top 41 recording artist.
And you don't often get that combination in a Rush Limbaugh guest host.
Lots more straight ahead on EIB.
Oh, my goodness.
That is smooth.
Have yourself a mellow.
I mean, I don't know.
It doesn't seem right for him screaming mad at Harry Reid and Ben Nelson, you know.
And it doesn't seem the smooth jazz perfume ad saxophone is, boy, that Ben Nelson, he's really a jelly spine squish.
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Great to be with you at Christmas and a best of rush Christmas Eve special coming up tomorrow.
You know, we were talking about this tanning bed tax, which is a serious, actually a serious tax.
And I was thinking about the people who it would affect.
And I remembered a young lady I had some correspondence with.
She got the gig to do Al Gore's makeup in the 2000 presidential debate.
She runs a cosmetics and tanning place in Manchester, New Hampshire, and she got the gig to do Al Gore's makeup for the first presidential debate.
And the newspapers were full.
The union leader in New Hampshire was full of these little things about the hometown gal who'd got the big gig to do Al Gore's makeup in the days ahead of the debate.
And then he came out.
He came out for the debate and he looked like Herman Munster, if you remember.
It was a disaster.
It was a disaster.
And so we assumed, you know, that when we heard that some local business had been responsible for it, that it was the Lambert funeral home on Elm Street that had gotten the contract to do Al Gore's funeral makeup for the presidential debate.
But then she started, Chris was the young lady who'd been responsible for the debate, started giving interviews.
This is how unlucky Al Gore was before he hit the global warming jackpot.
She was sort of riddled with self-doubt and in an existential crisis.
And she told the New Hampshire Sunday News that her catastrophic makeup of Al Gore had caused her to rethink entirely the psychology of makeup.
Quote, it just makes me think about the whole thing about wearing masks.
It's kind of a fascinating subject to analyze why we hide behind it in the first place.
And like, that's really not what Al wanted to be talking about at that stage of the presidential campaign.
And this was like a total disaster, Al Gore with the Herman Munster look and everything.
And Chris wrote to me a couple of years later, and she explained to me that what had happened was that Al Gore had got very badly sunburned and she'd had to do what she could to patch him up to get him ready for the presidential debate.
And so I think in a way that if we look at the tanning bed tax, I think if it saves Al Gore, because Al Gore had been going to these northern states and had spent half an hour too long under the tanning thing.
So I think if it saves Al Gore from another Herman Munster appearance on television, then the new Tanning Bed Tax may be worth it.
Let's go to Greg in Seattle.
Greg, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It's great to have you with us.
Merry Christmas to you.
Oh, hi, Mark.
Merry Christmas.
Yeah, I always love it when you're substituting for Russ.
You're really great.
But anyway, I wanted to add to what you said about the madness of socialism and kind of a personal story.
I have a friend who visited France for a couple of weeks, and he came back, and he told a story about how they're walking along the street.
I don't know if it was Paris, whatever, and he has a candy wrapper, and I guess it accidentally fell out of his hand, and he stooped down to pick it up.
And the Frenchman, a Frenchman with him, said, Don't pick that up.
There's somebody's job to do that, somebody's job to do that.
So there, in a nutshell, is not only the madness, but the corrupting, what I feel, the corrupting effect of socialism.
So on the one hand, you're kind of encouraged to just not take responsibility and pick that litter up.
But on the other hand, if you do retain some self-esteem, self-respect, and you do bend that to pick that up, you might feel guilty because you're contributing to the lessening of somebody's livelihood.
Yeah, HR mentioned that the last time he was in Paris, that there's all these guys there with the little government-made orange brooms.
They're the official designated color to show you're a government-credentialed candy wrapper picker-upper.
And these guys are all out on the streets early in the morning sweeping the streets like some like Dick Van Dyke and Mary Poppins, except he was doing, well, he was up the chimney, wasn't he?
These guys are out in the streets to sweep the streets, Tuppensa bag.
And HR was saying, well, you know, in America, we have this machine that kind of does all that for you.
And of course, they make the point that if you've got that many government workers, you can't introduce the machine.
And that's another of the corrupting effects of healthcare: the minute you have people to do all these little low-level tasks like picking up candy wrappers, the whole project becomes reoriented not to how do you do the job most efficiently, but how do you do the job without alienating large numbers of government workers who you've essentially put on the payroll in order to buy their votes?
If you look at the most inefficient jurisdictions anywhere in the world, they're always the ones with the highest number of people whose jobs depend on government.
So the first thing you do when you're going to have a sixth of the U.S. economy effectively annexed by the government is creating vast bureaucracies that depend on government.
And so when you're making a decision about what kind of cancer care you provide, you're not only taking into account cancer, the disease, the patients, the new treatments, you're taking into account the hundreds of thousands of people on your workforce who depend on the cancer treatment being done in a certain way.
And that factors into socialized healthcare all the way.
So it is corrupting in that sense, Greg.
It's very true and a very good point.
I made the point, I think, when I was here a few weeks ago, that the British National Health Service is the third largest employer on the planet after the Chinese Army and Indian Railways.
And they're both countries with a billion people in, by the way.
The British National Health Service serves this rain-sodden little island off the north coast of Europe and has 50 million people.
And for 50 million people, the healthcare system employs as many people as the Chinese Army and Indian Railways.
What size do you think America's health bureaucracy?
You look at the embryo bureaucracy seeded on every page of this monstrosity of a healthcare bill, the new government agencies, for all kinds of things you've never given much thought to.
Like, for example, the affirmative action aspects of healthcare, ensuring that there are provisions here for minority agencies to ensure that differences between minorities in terms of healthcare outcomes, that there are agencies that will correct those.
There's huge government agencies seeded and created for every conceivable element.
This is going to be bigger than the British National Health Service.
You'll be lucky in the end if the bureaucracy in this racket doesn't outnumber the British National Health Service, Indian Railways, and the Chinese Army combined.
Let's go to Daniel.
Daniel, in New York City, the land of immense paperwork for those of us who make the mistake of hiring someone from New York City.
Daniel, what's on your mind?
Hi.
I was calling because I'm a physician, a solo practitioning orthopedist in New York.
And the way that healthcare is being proposed, like you've mentioned, everyone's mentioned, is just not going to work.
I participate in Medicare, even though despite over the last 10 years they continually cut back reimbursement.
I don't participate with Medicaid only because I can't afford to.
The amount of paperwork and time that it takes to process any claims outweighs or outcosts what they reimburse you.
Right.
Right.
But you know.
And the problem is that with the plans that are being proposed, if a government option comes in, there are many, if not all, physicians may not even participate.
And no one's talking about that issue.
They can institute as many plans as they want, but if there's no doctors to be part of them, what value are there going to be?
Well, no, there will eventually.
You'll wind up in the way that other socialized government bureaucratic systems work, which is that the medical profession ceases to be a middle-class profession, and you wind up importing doctors from wherever you can get them.
So, for example, in the United Kingdom, these three guys who drove the flaming Chevy Blazer into the checkout desk at Glasgow Airport to try and blow up the airport, they were physicians.
They were pulling down six-figure salaries.
But the British National Health Service winds up hiring Pakistani jihadists to serve as its primary care physicians.
I'm not saying that's going to happen here in the next 18 months, but eventually that effect kicks in.
But, Daniel, you are absolutely right.
And what is important here is that these ghastly people, like this wretched corn husk of a man, Ben Nelson, people like this think that there is no cost to the bureaucratic imposition on people like you.
And of course, there is.
If you increase the amount of forms and paperwork, like this drivel I had to fill in because I made the mistake of hiring someone from New York, they don't factor in a cost to that.
They don't think, well, you know, let's put Daniel in New York on a minimum wage of eight bucks an hour or whatever, and how many hours does it take for him to process this claim?
And is the check we send him at the end of it worth it?
They don't think of it that way because they don't think of the paperwork, the government paperwork, as an imposition on you.
And we have more and more of that every year.
You know one phrase I hate, and it's coming up?
Tax season.
Tax season.
That's the problem right there.
Tax shouldn't be a significant enough feature that it has an entire season.
And the minute you start thinking of it in those terms, then that is the start of the problem.
You cannot tell people to devote productive working hours to filling in paperwork, filling in forms, filling in applications for government licenses, and for it not to have any impact on the economy.
Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
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Christmas on the EIB network.
Mark Stein inferus.
Here's a heartwarming seasonal story.
For a priest in the northern English city of York, the commandment thou shalt not steal isn't exactly written in stone.
The Reverend Tim Jones caused an uproar by telling his congregation that it's sometimes acceptable for desperate people to shoplift as long as they do it at large national chain stores rather than small family businesses.
So if you're going to break in and steal some stuff this Christmas, make sure you do it at a big-time, heartless, multinational retailer rather than your mom-and-pop convenience store, because then it'll be all okay and you can square it with the Ten Commandments.
You know what is crazy about this thing?
He compared it to Robin Hood.
And a lot of people bring this up.
Robin Hood steals from the rich, gives to the poor.
You know what Robin Hood was fighting?
Big government.
He was there.
He was up against, he was in the Forester, Nottingham.
He was up against the Sheriff of Nottingham.
He was battling King John, a rapacious, absolute monarch who figured that he was entitled to everything that Robin Hood and Little John and Maid Marion and all the rest of them had, and he went and took it.
Now, who talks like that today?
Harry Reid.
Harry Reid, when he says to Chris Dodd, sure, you can have $100 million.
Harry Reid, when he says to John Kerry, sure, you can have $500 million.
Harry Reid, when he says to Ben Nelson, sure, the 49 other states will pick up the tab for people in Nebraska.
This isn't even, by the way, bribery.
Because when I buy a cop, if I bribe a cop, if I go down on the street and the guy's about to write a parking ticket and I bribe him, I'm at least bribing him with my own money.
When Harry Reid bribes Ben Nelson, he's bribing him with my money too.
This isn't even honest bribery.
So the lesson of Robin Hood, by the way, is that when you have an all-powerful government stealing.
stealing and restricting people, then that's what you've got to push back against.
I would be in favor.
I mean, I'm in a Christmassy mood, so I'm not going to do it.
But I'd quite like to go down to Ben Nelson's Senate office and break in and just take, you know, if there's $5 lying on the desk, I'd like to take that because he's stealing tons of money from me.
I can't find enough loose cash in his office to make up, to steal from him what that guy is stealing from me.
And that is the danger that America faces.
That the level of spending here would be unsustainable from any society ever devised in human history.
So what these guys are doing, they're not guaranteeing your health.
They're ensuring that your children and your grandchildren will never enjoy the American dream.
The phrase will no longer exist in 40 or 50 years' time.
Noah, it will be one of those lost archaisms that nobody knows what it means because they will live poorer, meaner lives in smaller cars, in crummier houses, enjoying less of the blessings of life and less of the opportunities to fulfill their potential.
And this twerp of an Anglican priest with the classic Episcopalian, squishy, corrupted form of liberal Protestantism says, oh, well, thou shalt not steal, asterisk, but it's okay if you steal from Walmart.
This is not the problem.
The threat to you is not Walmart.
The threat to you is a rapacious government regulating and taxing every aspect of your life.
Mark Stein with my cheery Christmas message.
And we have some more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein, in for Rush on the EIB network.
It's been great bid here just before Christmas.
We'll have a best of rush for Christmas Eve.
And I'll be back Monday to start a new week of a substitute host level excellence in broadcasting.
And what we're going to do after the Christmas break, we'll look back at the last year.
Because you remember the way it was this last year?
All the merry little elves of the state-run media were prancing around singing, have a hopey, changey Christmas.
And everything was going to be, everything, now we were in the hands of the post-partisan healer.
Everything was going to be different.
Everything was going to be better.
His numbers have crashed faster than any president ever in this first year.
The so-called post-partisan healer bestriding the world like a colossus became just another 50-50 president in nothing flat.
So we'll talk about what happened to all those wishes when we were this time last year when we were singing Have Yourself a Very Hopey Changemas.
All that's over.
He's just another 50-50 loser, sinking fast.
And we'll talk about some of that in the days ahead at the beginning of next week.
But in the meantime, I wish you all the blessings of this Christmas season, whether you are in what Al Gore calls his faith tradition or whether you're in a regular old school type religion.
Have a terrific Christmas.
Enjoy Boxing Day.
And I'll see you on what they call in Decadent Europe Christmas Bank Holiday Monday.
Rush will be back at the start of the new year, but lots of great stuff to come next week.
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