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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 Anchor Man 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 uh Walter Williams coming in uh later in the week.
Uh lots uh lots of lots of uh Mark uh Mark Mark Davis on Wednesday.
Uh let's let's uh uh it was I'm here Monday, is that right?
Monday and Tu Monday and Tuesday.
That's c so I'm here Christmas Bank holiday Monday, as they say in uh in uh pre in in in more advanced uh socialist states.
Christmas Bank holiday Monday, I'll be here uh and Tuesday and then Wednesday, Mark Davis comes in, Thursday Walter Williams, the great Walter Williams uh will be here.
So to terrific uh terrific lineup, I like to think.
And actually I don't know what I'm I don't know why I'm laughing at.
What is the uh what is the saddest line of that?
Anyway, uh Warbists uh warbists kill Christmas.
Have you seen this thing?
This this is amazing.
This um bear, these people the builder bear, the build-a-bear chain.
It's an American chain, uh teddy bear chain, toys chain, build a bear.
And uh 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 w nightmare scenario.
Sandra wakes up on Christmas Eve, the North Pole has melted.
The toys uh the toys have sunk into the Arctic somewhere, they're gone.
There's no Christmas anymore.
Uh the girl elf uh is uh says to him on this promotional video, Santa, it's gone.
Uh the other elf goes, it's gone, it's gone.
Sanders going, what's gone?
And the girl elf says, Tell 'em.
The North Pole is gone.
It's gone.
Uh and and Santa goes, uh uh the the 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 l a lot worse than that.
The North Pole will be gone by Christmas.
Uh and uh and Ella uh has Ella the polar bear has to explain to Santa that we're not talking about next Christmas.
We're not talking about ten 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 no, I'm not gonna get anything for Christmas.
The entire North Pole is gone.
So Santa, I'm just so sad to say there's no North ice at the North Pole, everything's gone, I'm not gonna get my I wrote my note to Santa, and it's just lying soggy at the bottom of the uh the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.
And yeah, yeah, obviously a savvy kid will say, Well, why can't you just swing by the factory in Shanghai and pick 'em up direct from there, Santa?
What's the big deal?
But you know, if you're if you're a more impressionable youngster, you'll be distraught, you'll be devastated.
Uh this is this is, as I said, in any other scenario, this would be child abuse.
Uh this climate alarmin alarmism.
Now, you know, we've been talking about big government today.
I think one of the heartening things at this ludicrous Copenhagen uh summit is that you can reach a point where what's being contemplated is so insane that that people will eventually go, whoa, let's hold on here a minute.
Uh and luckily that's what happened uh 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 uh and the uh horn rim spectacles, uh the who was that guy the who was the head of the Politburo who liked to sing Love Me Tender.
Uh okay.
He was like uh he was like Zhang Xiaoping's successor.
He liked to do Elvis impersonations.
Whatever he was.
Yeah, I think I think it was uh Zhang Xiaomi.
I can't remember.
I'm like uh I'm like uh uh Obama.
I have Chairman Mao on my Christmas baubles, but the the Johnny come lately, so I can't keep track of at all.
Anyway, one of these Chinese co these we relied on the Chinese Politburo to save us from ourselves.
The the the free world, the functioning part of the world, the civilized world, was about to effectively vote to uh 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 uh crazy, and actually pulled us back from the cliff edge uh that Copenhagen collapsed uh and wasn't the disaster it was.
And I think that's heartening that eventually big government become can become so insane uh that people will reel back from it.
Uh but it's empathetic and embarrassing that it actually needed the Chinese Politburo uh to save uh to save us from uh ourselves uh there.
Um I guess if there's like a common theme to what we've been talking about here in the in terms of the tanning bed and and some of these uh other issues, it's that the s the small things, the small things, uh are uh are are examples of where you're headed and where we're headed is to the same hyper regulated destination uh as Europe.
And it's a really important that so-called conservatives understand this, that it's transformative, that that once you get this stuff in place, it can change the character of a people.
Uh 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 uh across the Atlantic.
And funerals are always uh black comedies of errors.
You know, you're you're upset and you're distraught, but terrible things uh terrible things always happen at funerals.
And so in this case, I was like in the uh limo behind the hearse, and we pull up at this uh beautiful churchyard, and it's a church uh built in the uh 11th century.
So it was built in the year 10 something or other.
So it's uh a thousand years old, this church.
Beautiful churchyard, I idyllic scene, and we're uh we're in there behind the hearse, everyone else has gone into the church and the family's uh behind the hearse, and they bring out this thing called a like looks like a cart, a supermarket cart from Costco.
And uh I say to uh just uh make it chit-chat, I say, hey, what's with uh you know, what's with the supermarket cart?
And they go uh th uh uh to one of the pool bearers, and the pole bearer goes, uh oh well we uh we have to uh we have to put the uh coffin on the uh on the uh supermarket cart now to wheel it in.
And I go, uh wait a minute, what's the deal with that?
You're like paw bearers, don't you uh don't you carry the coffin anymore?
And uh it yeah, it was a beautiful, expensive coffin with uh handles.
And um and the pool bearer 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 is uh has been ruled unsafe for a pall bearer to bear a paw.
And uh so the guy goes, so I'm thinking uh 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 the organist has been trying to stretch out the bark to carta and fugue now while uh while vamping till ready while while he's waiting for the coffin.
And uh 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.
It as I said, it was an 11th century church and this like uh attractive little gravel path down to the church.
And uh 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 uh for you to carry the coffin uh down the path?
He goes, Whoa, it's elf and safety, mate.
Elf and safety keeps uh saying uh over and over.
So I look at my brother-in-law, and I look at my brother-in-law, and I say, 'Nuts to this.
We're not having we're not we're we're not having the coffin brought in on a supermarket cart.
We'll take the cough in it.
And the and the pool bearer at that point goes, ' Uh you're not licensed pool bearers.
And uh and at that stage, uh my brother-in-law says, uh turns to the pool bearer and says, 'Well, what's the point of us getting a license to become a pool bearer?
All it licenses us to do is not to bear pulls.
If you're a licensed pole bearer, you're not allowed to carry the coffin.
Uh so he goes, 'Well, we we can't have this, uh we can't have this, mate.
Where the we're the only ones.
So we have this like showdown, and it looks it's one of these things where it looks like we're going to be fighting over the coffin, like out of some freakish uh uh freakish uh black comedy movie.
And eventually at that point, uh w they all meet in a huddle and they agree to let us join them in carrying the coffin, because if uh everything if anything goes wrong and health and safety prosecute them for carrying the coffin into the church, uh then they can s then they can blame it on the unlicensed paul bearers,
us who bul bullied them into and I said, fine, we'll go for that, because uh if you by the time you sue me, uh I'll be in New Hampshire, and New Hampshire is not gonna extradite uh overseas uh to somebody for uh you know, illegally bearing a pool without being a European Union accredited paul bearer.
And that's uh that's right.
And if they uh yeah, if New Hampshire wanted to uh extradite me to Bermuda to live on the beach, that would be uh a much uh more different uh situation.
But this is what it's come to now.
Elf 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.
It's elf oh, it's elf and safety gone mad, mate.
When you tell anybody this story, if you say said to the like uh gal in the convenience store or the clerk at the railway station, they always respond, it's 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 uh 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 uh for far more fundamental things uh in in the uh in the years ahead.
I don't know I can't recall whether uh Winston Churchill says he will f he 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.
Uh and uh that's what you have to do.
You have to resist the impositions because big government creeps in incrementally.
It's a bitsy little regulations of every aspect of life, and it adds up to the biggest government uh ever, ever devised, and all in the name of bogus stuff like health and safety.
It's what uh Roger Scruton uh in a terrific piece a couple of days ago calls uh totalitarian sentimentality.
Totalitarian sentimentality is a threat to free peoples and should be resisted at every level.
Uh lots more, and we'll take your calls straight ahead.
1-800-282-2882.
Ah, lovely.
Carol of the Bells, love that one.
Mark Stein, Infrarush uh on the EIB network.
Let's go to D Anne in Hololulu.
Uh what what's that Hawaiian Christmas?
Uh mele calcula, who is whatever it is.
Do you know the Hawaiian Christmas song, Deanne?
No, but I can say melee Kalichimaka.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, what was I saying?
I don't know, but it sounded good.
Yeah, as long as it doesn't mean something rude in Hawaiian.
Well, alohan.
And you're having a fine day today, I must say.
Well, I was I was doing great until I I said get the hell out of my face in Hawaiian while singing along to the Hawaiian Christmas song there.
Uh but uh uh I'm sorry, I'm sorry about that.
I uh my uh my attempt at Hawaiian outreach failed miserably.
But uh Dee Ann, it is great to where d uh uh HR is D Ann come anywhere on uh Rush's favorite uh female names list.
It's just outside the top ten on Russia's female lane, but it's like three with a bullet on mine.
So uh D D Ann, uh it's great to have you wi with us.
Merry Chry 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 four hundred eighty-six million dollar shortfall for education.
Therefore, my children have seventeen furlough Friday days.
Because they can't afford to send them to school.
If you don't think they're gonna 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 uh 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 uh there's a wait to get seen by somebody, uh it's a lot worse for a grown-up than it is for a grade schooler.
Yes, it is.
But um, as my husband says, we're forced to home school.
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 uh 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 uh prevent you uh 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 uh of any c on education of any country in the developed world uh apart from Switzerland.
Uh and with Switzerland, they don't have furlough Fridays, and you get uh a hell of a good uh good education.
Look at John Kerry.
He went to Swiss finishing school and it did marvel marvels for him.
Um so you are really getting ripped off in Hawaii for three and a half days, plus they they uh they make you uh 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 that with with any luck though, the good the good news is that your kids will grow up less indoctrinated than this.
So presumably they're not like uh most kids who are kind of terrified about the melting polar ice caps and uh and all the rest of it because they they're missing school on Fridays, so they're not getting shown Al Gore's movie four times every semester.
So there are No, I am thankful for that.
You're correct.
There are swings.
There are swings and roundabouts there.
That's what it's gonna be like in uh that's gonna be like at Healthcare.
Furlough Friday.
There's no oh there's no point coming into the emergency ward on a Friday, so we're gonna be here till ten o'clock Monday.
That gunshot wound, you just go home and uh just go to b go home and keep dabbing it for the next seventy-two hours.
We'll get to you we'll get to you Monday.
You're right, that's the way it's gonna be, uh Diane.
Thanks, uh thanks for calling, and a merry Christmas.
Tell tell me the word of that uh Hawaiian in the Hawaiian Christmas song again.
Melee kaliki maka.
That's right.
Melee kaliki maka is the thing to say.
That's that's how it should it should have gone, isn't it?
Absolutely.
Yeah, yeah.
I w I was singing, wow, it's another furlough Friday uh in uh in Hawaiian.
Uh great great to have you with us.
Thank you, Dead.
Let's go to Trish in Minneapolis.
Trish, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, Trish.
Merry Christmas to you too.
Thank you.
And what's what's your 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, hospitals, buildings, downtowns, tanning booths.
Wow.
You're right.
It's like it's like Uyghurs to Bermuda, but thinking big.
We all we'd all relocate to Nebraska and we'd all be entitled to the Corn Husker kickback.
Uh and that's that's the way 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 that actually it would it 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 to to get the driver's licenses and and make them realize what they're doing.
Everybody to Nebraska.
It's the great migration.
So let's depopulate the forty-nine states, and we'll all be entitled to the Cornhusker kickback.
Thanks very much for your call, Trish.
Merry Christmas to you, Mark Stein, Infrarush on the EIB network, and lots more straight ahead on this pre-Christmas show.
Stick around.
1 800, 28 282, uh 2882.
Do I have still have time?
Have I done have I misread the clock?
That's really bad.
I thought uh I thought, yeah, time for another couple of choruses.
Where was I I was going I was going into my break.
What what are we what are we gonna do?
Uh you want another couple of choruses of the uh of the uh Hawaiian Christmas song.
Okay, this is this is a terrific Christmas record.
This was uh this is this is my Christmas gem from me to you.
You know, that got to number 41 on Amazon's uh chart last year.
Uh so I as I like to say, I'm not just a right wing hate monger, I'm also a uh 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 that is smooth.
Have yourself uh have yourself a mellow.
I mean, I don't know, I don't it doesn't seem right for I'm I'm hearing screaming mad at Harry Reid and Ben Nelson, you know.
And it doesn't seem uh the the smooth jazz perfume ad saxophone is uh Boy that Ben Nelson, he's really a jelly spine squish.
1 800-282-2882.
Uh uh great to be with you at Christmas and uh best of rush Christmas Eve special coming uh coming up tomorrow.
You know, we were talking about uh the 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 I remembered a young lady I had some correspondence with.
She got the gig to do uh Al Gore's makeup uh in the 2000 presidential debate.
Uh she she runs a a uh 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 uh New Hampshire was full of these little things about the uh 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, uh, and he looked like Herman Munster, if you remember.
It was a disaster.
It was a disaster.
And so we assumed, you know, that uh when we when we heard that some local business had been responsible for it, that it was the Lambert Funeral Home on Elm Street that had been uh got gotten the contract to do uh Al Gore's uh f funeral makeup.
But uh the for the presidential debate.
But then she started, Chris was uh the young lady who'd be responsible for the debate, started giving interviews.
This is how unlucky Al Gore was before he he hit the global warming jackpad.
He she was sort of riddled with self-doubt and in an existential crisis.
And she told the New Hampshire Sunday News that her her catastrophic makeup of Al Gore had caused her to rethink entirely the psychology of makeup.
Uh 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.
Uh and uh this is uh this was uh this was like a total disaster, Al Gore with the Herman Munster look and everything.
And uh Chris wrote to me uh 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 and she'd had to do what she could to patch him up in uh to get him ready for the presidential debate.
And so I think in a way that if we look if we look at the tanning bed tax, I think 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 ex if it saves Al Gore from another Herman Munster appearance on television, uh then the then the new tanning bed tax may be maybe 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 uh substituting for Rush.
You're you're you're really great.
But anyway, I uh wanted to add uh to what you said about the madness of socialism, um and my as kind of a personal story.
Uh I have a friend who um visited France for a couple weeks, and he came back and he told a story about how they're walking along the street, I don't know if it's 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 uh the Frenchman, a Frenchman with him said, don't pick that up.
There's somebody somebody's job to do that.
Somebody's job to do that.
So there in a nutshell is not only the madness, but the uh the corrupting what I feel the corrupting uh effect of socialism.
So on the one hand, you uh 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 uh esteem, self-respect, and you do bend that to pick that up, you might feel guilty, but you because you're contributing to um the lessening of somebody's uh livelihood.
Yeah, A ch uh HR mentioned that the uh last time he was in Paris uh that uh th there's all these guys there with the little government made orange brooms that they're the official designated color to show you're a a government credentialed candy wrapper picker upper and uh the the these guys are all out on the streets early in the morning uh sweeping the sweeping the streets like uh like some like uh Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins except he was the well he was up the chimney wasn't he?
These guys are out in the streets to sweep the streets top and he uh and and uh and HR was saying, well you know in America we have this machine that kind of does all that for you and 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 health care is that the minute you have people to do all these little low level tasks like picking up candy wrappers uh the whole project becomes reoriented not to how do you do the job most efficiently but how do you do the job without alienating uh large numbers of government workers uh who uh whoever 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 gonna have a sixth of the U.S. economy uh uh uh effectively annexed by the government is being create is creating vast bureaucracies that depend on government uh and and uh so when you're making a decision about what kind of uh you know 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 the uh hundreds of thousands of people uh on your workforce who depend on the cancer treatment being done in a certain way and that factors into socialized health health care all the way.
So it is corrupting in that in uh in that sense uh Greg.
It's uh very true and a very good point.
Uh 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.
Uh uh the the British National Health Service uh serves this rain sodden little island off uh the north uh uh coast of Europe and has fifty million people and for fifty million people uh the health care 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 health care 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 health care.
Ensuring that there are provisions here for minority agencies to ensure that differences between minorities in terms of health care outcomes, that there are agencies that...
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 uh in in this racket doesn't outnumber the British National Health Service, Indian Railrailways and the Chinese Army combined.
Let's go to Daniel.
Daniel in New York City, the land of uh of uh uh of uh immense paperwork for those of us who make the mistake of hiring someone from New York City.
Daniel what's on your mind?
Hi.
Um I I was calling because I'm a physician, a solo practitioning uh orthopedist in New York and the way that healthcare is being proposed uh like you've mentioned everyone's mentioned is just not going to work.
Um I participate in Medicare uh even though despite over the last ten years they continually cut back reimbursement.
Right.
I don't participate with Medicaid uh only because I can't afford to.
The amount of paperwork and time that it takes to process any claims is outweighs or out costs what they reimburse you.
Right.
Right.
But you know and the problem is is that with the the plans that that are being proposed if a government option comes in, there are many, if not all decisions may not even participate, and no one's talking about that 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 they going to be?
Well, no, there will eventually you'll you'll wind up in w the way that other uh socialized government bureaucratic systems work, which is that uh the medical profession uh 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 who did the 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.
Uh but the but the British National Health Service winds up hiring uh Pakistani jihadists to serve as its primary care physicians.
Um I'm not saying that's gonna happen here in the next eighteen months, but eventually that that effect kicks in.
But Daniel, you are absolutely right.
And and where what is important here is that these ghastly people, the like this this wretched corn husk of a man, uh 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 m amount of forms and paperwork, like this drivel out to to fill in b because I made the mistake of hiring someone from New York, uh they they don't factor in a cost to that.
They don't think, well, you know, let's let's let's put Daniel in New York on a minimum wage of uh eight bucks an hour or whatever, and uh 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.
Uh that's 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, uh 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 uh on the economy.
Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network, more straight ahead, 1-800-282-2882.
Christmas on the EIB network, Mark Stein Infrarush.
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 gonna break in and steal some stuff uh this Christmas, uh make sure you you do it at a at a big time, heartless multinational retailer rather than your mom and pop uh uh convenience store, because then it'll be all okay and you can square it with the Ten Commandments.
You know you know what is crazy about this thing?
He compared it to Robin Hood.
Uh and 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, uh he was up against he was in the uh Forrester Nottingham, he was up against the sheriff of Nottingham, he was battling King John, a rapacious uh absolute monarch uh who figured that he was entitled to everything that uh Robin Hood and Little John and Maid Marion and all the rest of them had, and he went and took it.
Now who who talks like that today?
Harry Reid.
Harry Reid, when he says to uh when he says to Chris Stodd, sure you can have a hundred million dollars.
Harry Reid, when he talks says to uh John Kerry, sure you can have five hundred million.
Harry Reid, when he says to Ben Nelson, sure the uh the uh forty-nine other states will pick up the tab for for uh people in Nebraska.
Uh th this isn't even uh by the way, bribery.
Because when I buy a cop, uh if I bribe a cop, uh if I go down on the street and uh uh 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.
Uh so the lesson of Robin Hood, by the way, uh is is uh is that when you have uh an all-powerful government uh stealing uh stealing uh uh and restricting people, uh then the thing that's what you've got to push back against.
I would be in favor.
I mean, I'm I'm in a Christmasy mood, so I'm not gonna do it.
But I'd quite like to go down to Ben Nelson's Senate office and break in and just just take, you know, if there's five dollars lying on the desk.
I'd I'd like to take that, because he's stealing he's stealing tons of money from me.
I can't find enough loose cash in his office to make up uh to steal from him what that guy is stealing from me.
And that that is uh th the danger that America faces.
That the level of spending here is would be unsustainable uh from any society ever devised in human history.
So what these guys are doing, they're not 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 forty or fifty years' time.
No way it will be one of those lost archaisms that nobody knows what it means.
Uh, because uh they will live poorer, meaner lives, uh 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 uh with the classic episcopalian, squishy, uh corrupted form of uh of of uh liberal Protestantism says it, oh well, thou shalt not steal, asterisk, but it's okay if you steal from Walmart.
Uh this is this is not the problem.
The threat to you is not Walmart.
The threat to you is a rapacious government uh regulating and taxing every aspect of your life.
Mark Stein with my cheery Christmas message uh and uh uh and we have some more straight ahead on the uh Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network.
It's been great bid here uh just just before Christmas.
We'll have a best of Rush uh for Christmas Eve, and I'll be back uh Monday to start a new week of uh uh a substitute host level excellence uh in uh in broadcasting.
And what we're gonna do uh after the Christmas break, uh we'll look back at the last year.
Because you remember the way it was this uh last year, all the merry little elves of the state-run media were prancing around singing have a hopey changey Christmas.
And uh everything was gonna be uh w everything now we were in the hands of the post-partisan healer, everything was gonna be different, everything was gonna be better.
His numbers have crashed faster than any president ever uh in this first year.
The the so-called post-partisan healer bestriding the world like a colossus became just another fifty-fifty president in nothing facts uh nothing flat.
So we'll talk about what happened uh to all those uh wish when we were this time last year when we were singing uh have yourself a very hopey changement.
All that's over.
He's just another fifty-fifty loser, sinking fast, and we'll talk about uh some of that in uh the days ahead at the beginning of next week.
But in the meantime, I wish you all the blessings uh of this uh Christmas season, whether you are in what uh Al Gore calls his faith tradition uh or whether 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 Bang Holiday Monday.
Uh Rush will be back uh at the uh at the start of the new year, but lots of uh great stuff to come next week.
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