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Feb. 17, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 17, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this show make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying, and there's one reason for that, and that's because we are devoted relentlessly to the pursuit of the truth here at the EIB Network.
Great to have you here, Rush Lynn Boy.
Fastest three hours in media, we're discussing today the big lie.
The Obama administration is one gigantic big lie.
The Democrat Party is one gigantic big lie.
From the Richmond Times Dispatch, Virginia Attorney General Ken Kuzzinelli turned up the heat on global warming yesterday.
On behalf of the state, Cuccinelli filed a petition asking the federal EPA to reconsider its December finding that global warming poses a threat to people.
Cuccinelli also filed a petition with the Federal Appeals Court in Washington seeking a court review of the EPA finding.
He had no comment beyond a brief email to news organizations, news conference on the issue scheduled for this afternoon.
The Governor Bob McDonald supported the moves.
Basically, what's happening here is the same thing happened in Texas yesterday.
And that is the states are fighting Obama crap.
They're fighting the EPA having blanket authority to regulate carbon dioxide on the premise that there is man-made global warming.
They want to opt out.
So it's interesting, under the rubric of the big lie, to go back to the audio soundbites this afternoon in Washington at the National Press Club, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Jane Lubchinko presented the NOAA fiscal year 2011 budget request and here is a portion of what she said.
NOAA's 2011 request includes investments for the core climate services and observations needed to enable the nation to effectively address the impacts of climate change.
Climate science covers a range of inquiry from topics that have been well studied and documented, such as the tracking and fate of greenhouse gases, to those on the cutting edge of knowledge, such as the consequences of ocean acidification and the melting of sea ice.
Big lie continues.
Dr. Jones, University of East Anglia, has admitted there hasn't been any warming since 1995.
All of his data he lost.
It's a hoax.
The emails from the same university prove it's a hoax.
Responsible people, smart people backing away from this now.
But it's government people, politicians will be the last to give this up because it's a political thing.
They wail and they moan about everything being politicized.
They're the ones that are politicizing even the weather.
She says, forget the evidence.
Forget the evidence.
Global warming is happening.
A reporter, reporter Karen Schubert from the Cybercast News Service, I'm wondering your opinion on what climate change expert Phil Jones, former head of the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia, when he told the BBC last week, and he agreed with the statement that from 1995 to the present, there has been no significant statistical global warming.
I'm wondering, do you agree with Dr. Jones there has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995?
There is very strong evidence that there have been global increases in global temperatures over, let's take the last century, just to hone in on that.
Over that period of time, there have been significant periods where there are ups and downs and periods where there are no changes.
And if you choose to be selective in highlighting any decade in there, you can see different patterns.
Sometimes increases, sometimes decreases, sometimes no change.
What you really need to do is look at a longer history of temperature records, which is what we have because we've been taking good data, and that longer history shows unequivocal increases in global average temperatures.
So the reporter says, so you would agree with Dr. Jones, there has been no significant statistical global warming since 1995.
I am saying that it is inappropriate to look at any particular short period of time to discern the long-term trend.
The big lie.
Jane Lubchenko of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Obama administration.
Not only did Phil Jones say there hadn't been any warming between 95 and the present, he also pointed out that the hockey graph of this fraud scientist from Penn State, Michael Mann, was also wrong.
That there was medieval warming, much warmer than it is today.
The whole thing's a hoax, folks, but they're not going to give it up because it's not about global warming and it's not about saving the planet.
It's about advancing socialism, Marxism, whatever you want to call it, expanding government and taking away people's freedom and liberty and raising their taxes and making you feel guilty and responsible for all of this destruction that has taken place.
Back to the stimulus, as we focus today on the big lie.
This is the anniversary of the porculus slush fund, and 6% of the American people, only 6 believe that it worked.
52% of people in a CNN poll say Obama does not deserve a second term.
They're doubling down on the big lie.
Only 6% believe it worked.
17% of Americans are unemployed.
This is why Obama does not deserve a second term, and this is why a lot of Democrats are jumping off their sinking ship.
Senate Republicans have assembled some examples here of stimulus spending on this, the one-year anniversary.
Cheryl Atkinson, CBS News, you probably wouldn't guess that a martini bar in a Brazilian steakhouse would be on tap for stimulus money, but in St. Joseph, Missouri, two privately owned facilities are getting $100,000 of your tax dollars.
Number two, the State University of New York at Buffalo won $390,000 to study young adults who drink malt liquor and smoke marijuana.
Number three, the University of Hawaii collected $210,000 to study the learning patterns of honeybees, and $700,000 went to help crab fishermen in Oregon recover lost crab pots.
Half a million dollars went to Arizona State University to study the genetic makeup of ants to determine distinctive roles in ant colonies.
$450,000 went to the University of Arizona to study the division of labor in ant colonies.
This is all stimulus spending.
The rodent study at Florida Atlantic University of Boca Raton used $15,551 in stimulus funds to pay for two summer researchers to help gauge how alcohol affects a mouse's motor functions.
Do we have any doubt how alcohol affects human beings' motor functions?
President Obama's stimulus plan now paying Americans to buy that great necessity of modern life, the golf cart.
John Stossel uncovered this one.
Thanks to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of Obama's slush fund, Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to buy a golf cart.
The federal credit provides from $4,200 to $5,500 for the purchase of an electric vehicle.
And when it combined with similar incentive plans in many states, tax credits can pay for nearly the entire cost of a golf cart.
Stossel went out and bought one to test the theory.
He's driving around outside of Fox News headquarters there on 6th Avenue, also known as the Avenue of the Former Americas.
And he explained the whole process.
He got a golf cart, and the rebates and the kickbacks paid for it.
So he's driving around.
He's telling New Yorkers walking down as he's thanking them.
I want to thank you for buying me this golf cart.
Here, look at it.
What the hell are you talking about?
Oh, yeah, you did it.
You Obama stimulus.
I'm thinking of going and getting one.
You know, my property is pretty big.
I'd just as soon ride a golf cart around and inspect it rather than have to take the Hoof Express.
If I get a golf cart, golf cart paid by you, why shouldn't I do it?
And I'll come in here and highlight the process.
Yeah, I should do it.
I absolutely should do it.
Here, we're not through.
We're halfway through the list here.
500 Syracuse University freshmen will divulge the details of their sex lives in a study that's being paid for with $219,000 of stimulus money.
Sunset Boulevard, also known as the Sunset Strip, and one of the most famous streets in the world be getting a $7 million facelift after more than 75 years of use with a free million-dollar nose job coming from Uncle Sam.
But Rush, but Rush, this is a stimulus level, stimulus ready, it's not creating any jobs.
It's just giving union workers on the staff in LA some more make work to do.
Not creating any jobs.
The Cactus Bug Project at the University of Florida is more ambitious, spending $325,394 in stimulus money to determine how environment affects the mating decisions of females.
Once again, I would do this for a dollar.
$325,000 in stimulus money to determine how environment affects the mating decisions of females.
Number 10, a $500,000 three-year grant to study social networks like Facebook.
Number 11, $3.4 million for a frigging turtle tunnel in Florida.
The other third of the stimulus, government infrastructure spending, has been the most controversial from the start.
Some proposals have been criticized as wasteful, such as a $3.4 million eco-passage to help sea turtles cross a highway in Tallahassee, Florida.
One-year anniversary of the stimulus, this is what we're paying for.
A big chunk of the money that will pay for a new spring training baseball complex on tribal land in the East Valley will be delivered via a financing program that's part of the federal economic stimulus plan.
The Salt River Prima Maricopa Indian Community says it may borrow as much as $30 million of the estimated cost of the $100 million complex near Scottsdale that'll become the spring home of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies.
Jonathan Carl, ABC News, the Napa Valley wine train.
To tourists, a great way to see America's most celebrated wine region.
To others, Exhibit A and what's wrong with the stimulus.
What that is, is a situation where you see the wealthy or well-connected get taken care of and the community suffers.
That is, Senator Tom Coburn.
Carl says he's talking about the Napa Valley wine train relocation project, 54 million stimulus dollars to build a new rail bridge, elevate and relocate 3,300 feet of tracks, and put flood walls around the train's main station.
$50,000 in stimulus funds for a tennis court in Montana and $250, $250 stimulus checks to prisoners.
Megan Kelly of Fox said thousands to a million of your stimulus dollars have gone straight to convicts.
The feds are sending $250 stimulus checks to thousands upon thousands of prisoners, first-degree murderers, who are getting your money.
So I don't know what for.
I don't know what for.
But it's the first anniversary of Obama's slush fund.
I just wanted you to know what a lot of it's going to.
We're going to get to your phone calls El Quicko.
But first, you just heard all of the waste in the slush fund, the porculus bill, right?
You just heard it.
I just went through it.
Here's what Obama said about that today at the White House, the one-year anniversary of his slush fund.
Joe and I were just talking in the back.
When this thing passed, we said $787 billion.
Somewhere, there's going to be some story of some money that ended up being misspent.
$787 billion spent out over 18 months.
That's a lot.
That's a lot of money.
And it is a testimony to Vice President Biden and his team that, as Joe puts it, the dog so far at least hasn't barked.
So you just heard all that waste, but he said this morning there hasn't been any.
The Congressional Budget Office has come out and said that the actual cost of the stimulus is not the $787 billion.
It's actually a trillion, leaving out the earmarks it costs to get votes for this thing.
The actual stimulus, $787, but the CBO has come out.
No, no, no, no, it's $862 billion because of the increase in unemployment compensation benefits we've had to pay.
And the White House is rejecting the CBO estimate of how much the Stimulus Act will cost.
They don't know what they're talking about over there.
Isn't it interesting?
The Congressional Budget All Budget Office, all-knowing and all-seeing, unless they say something the White House doesn't like.
Now, Obama and Biden know that all of this money is being wasted and they don't care.
They don't respect the taxpayers of this nation.
This administration has contempt for you.
You are trashed endlessly.
Businesses are trashed endlessly.
They don't care where their money goes or how much more they're going to take from people.
They don't care about any of this.
They don't care whether there's waste or not.
Biden's not controlling anything.
These people are out there saying that congressional gridlock and bye-bye is saying, no, no, no, no, congressional gridlock, excessive partisanship.
I got to get out of there.
It's why the deficit's so big.
Oh, let's examine that.
Congressional gridlock is the reason the deficit is so large.
Somebody on my vast research team needs to find something out for me.
Find for me what legislative budget cuts were on the table that were blocked.
I want to know, because they're out there saying gridlock is responsible for the deficit, which means there had to be somebody out there trying to cut the budget, but the Republicans got in the way.
I want to know any legislation that was advanced and debated and voted on to cut the budget.
Don't bother looking, folks.
There isn't any.
And there hasn't been any.
To the phones, to Hartford, Connecticut.
We start with Pete.
Nice to have you, and I'm really glad you waited, sir.
Hello.
Rush, it's a pleasure to speak with you.
How are you doing today?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
Listen, earlier you mentioned how Obama's taking credit for this 2 million jobs saved, which is obviously ridiculous.
But if that's going to be his measure, then shouldn't Bush get credit after the 9-11 tax for saving all of the jobs since Al-Qaeda was.
Exactly.
You're exactly right.
That is why I said earlier that I wanted to congratulate Bush for any and all economic growth that has or may occur during the Obama administration, because the Obama administration is doing zilch zero nada to cause any economic growth.
Now, if they're going to run out there and blame Bush, if they're going to say that Bush is responsible for the downside of the economy, he deserves credit for any upside.
I mean, for the economy to plummet, it has to have been up there somewhere, right?
Who did that?
Who put the economy up there for it to fall to these depths?
It sure as hell wasn't Obama, was it?
So we got to credit Bush.
I mean, if he's going to get blamed for this, we've got to give him credit for getting it up there.
The big lie, ladies and gentlemen, the Democrat Party, American liberalism, Barack Obama.
Greggie, Greggie in northern Montana, welcome to the program, Greggie.
Yeah, Russ.
Vice President Hairplugs was up on the talk shows this morning telling all American taxpayers got a real good deal out of the stimulus package.
I got stimuled the 1st of January.
My federal income tax withholding went up 1.01%.
Yeah, I know.
And President Teleprompter was telling us during his State of the Union message that only 5% didn't get a tax cut.
95% of us got a tax cut, and the other 5% didn't get a tax cut.
I must be part of the super rich because I got a tax increase.
Yeah, what's your income?
About $950 with change a month.
So not even $12,000 a year, and you got a tax increase.
Oh, not even $12,000.
Not even.
I got stimuled.
Stimul you, stimul me, and stimulus.
I wish these guys would go stimulate themselves instead of us.
Weren't you a little shocked out there to get stimuled for a tax increase of 1% at less than $12,000 a year?
Well, I don't know.
I wasn't complaining too much when my pumpkin pies in the local bakery went up double.
I didn't complain too much.
And what really got my goat was President Fatmouth Biden up there telling everybody that they got a good deal out of this stimulus.
Well, see, that's the nature of the big lie.
You tell something so audacious that nobody could possibly think they'd make it up.
No, no, that's well, Hitler used to do that.
Goebbels was great for that.
Just tell a bigger lie and Hitler didn't need Goebbels.
Hitler was the architect of all this stuff.
Goebbels, Goebbels, what a, he just implemented it all.
He might have to do it.
He might have needed Rommel.
And he might have needed Christoph Waltz.
And Hitler might have needed Borman.
Yeah, that's Goebbels, you know, Goebbels made movies out there.
Not anything there.
That's what they want to do is spread the wealth around, but it comes out of my pocket and your pocket.
There's no wealth being spread to anybody except unions.
And by the way, you know that Rodney King bit where he's talking to the arrogant professor, and he says, well, you've got to pay off the Teamsters here if you're going to use concrete in this building of yours.
And the smug teacher, Mr. Mellon, there may be kickbacks and bribes and messy payoffs in your world, but not in the legitimate world we're talking about.
Really?
I would say, ladies and gentlemen, that President Obama has mastered the art of union kickbacks.
Wouldn't you?
The only people making out like bandits during all this are the union people.
State, federal, you name it, government union people are making their unemployment rate among union people in the government is 3%.
I mean, that's statistically zero.
Utilizing talent on loan from God.
I actually can't help it.
I mean, I am what I am, as Popeye said.
And I have talent on loan from God.
And we're here, Rush Limbaugh, behind the golden EIB microphone to Sarasota, Florida.
Kevin, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Oh, what an honor to speak with you, sir.
This is truly amazing.
Megadidos from sunny Sarasota.
Thank you, Chad.
Listening to you for a long time, first-time caller, and I've been watching you.
I actually watched you in the early 90s on a television show.
Also, have a couple rush babies, my sons Jared and Josiah, that have been listening to you two and starting to understand the real truth of things.
God bless you, sir.
God bless you.
Well, God bless you.
A couple of questions.
We all know how the economy is in shambles as we know it.
And I'm just curious as to thinking if you agree with me that I think that the economy is going to take a turn for way worse than we can even possibly imagine.
And the second question, and I'll hang up and listen to your response, is have you and your amazing staff actually checked out the website usdebtclock.org, and can you comment on that?
Thank you.
Well, I'm familiar with USDebtClock.org.
There's so many of these things out there, so many of these clocks that add up the debt by the second.
I've seen them all.
The answer to your first question, the American economy is very resilient, and it is going to have upticks, despite this assault on it.
And I think you better prepare yourselves.
I don't know when, but it's going to have an uptick of stuff.
It hasn't happened yet.
This 5.7% GDP.
They're going to revise that down.
It's all government spending.
But it's going to be people after a while are going to get fed up with not having jobs and not having things, and they're going to go out and take matters into their own hands, and they're going to take on these obstacles.
So you might see a brief economic uptick.
I don't think as long as these policies are in play, you're going to see anything like a revival of our economy to sustained growth that can be predicted and investments made on that basis.
But you're going to see some upticks.
The problem is long term.
The problem is that this kind of debt that this man has run up cannot be supported.
At some point, whatever economic uptick there is.
And I only say this because I've studied the American people.
I know how resilient they are, and I know how they're just not going to sit down and bend over and take this.
They want to work, and they want to eat, and they want to be able to provide for their families.
And at some point, they're going to take matters into their own hands and stop waiting.
Now, some are going to continue to be serfs of the state and just rely on unemployment benefits.
I don't know to what degree, but when it does happen, you're going to see this bunch start singing the praises of it like they made it happen, which will be a pure lie.
But long term, we're in deep, deep, deep trouble because this debt that he's run up cannot be sustained.
And down the road, if these people are still in office after 2012, we're going to have tax increases out to wazoo.
Everybody.
And once that happens, and we're going to have inflation from all this debt at some point, once those two things happen.
And the tax increases, by the way, I can tell you right now are slated for January of 2011.
That's when the Bush tax cuts perspire.
And when that starts happening, everybody's tax rates go up, folks, even if you make less than $250,000.
And that's going to impact your disposable income.
And it's your disposable income that determines the economic strength of the country.
And if you don't have as much, there's not going to be a whole lot of consuming going on out there.
And there isn't going to be a whole lot of commerce going on out there.
There'll be pockets of it someplace.
There'll be pockets of it going up.
But overall, no.
Look at what has to happen.
There's a lot of stuff going on out there.
I probably shouldn't say this.
Every time I say I shouldn't say this, the staff on the other side of the glass say, you better say it now.
We have a lot of mission statements coming out.
We have the Mount Vernon statement.
All good people.
They are reprising a statement on conservatism that started in 1960, the Sharon Statement, which was the Connecticut city in which Bill Buckley lived at the time.
Buckley invited a bunch of people to his palatial estate, and they established essentially the manifesto of what conservatism was in 1960 that's being redone here and announced today the Mount Vernon Statement.
And then there are other people coming out with books, what we need to do.
And the Tea Party people have their own ideas.
And so you've got a lot of conservatives with their own manifestos coming out here.
What ought to be done?
McCain, I think, is going to, what is 10 promises that the Senate, he wants Republican senators to make.
So there are a lot of these manifesto statements, promises, contracts with America, this kind of thing coming out.
It's, I don't know.
I got mixed emotions about it because there's so many of them.
And they're going to overlap in some areas, but they're not going to overlap in others.
And like today, Michael Steele had a four-hour meeting with some Tea Party people, which is all fine and dandy.
And I'm told that there was some common ground that came out of it.
If there was not total common ground that came out of Tea Party meeting with the Republicans, then this is all academic.
The Tea Party people, I really, I heard Karl Rove say something yesterday.
I actually agree with this.
I think the Tea Party people would be better served if they did not attach themselves to a political party per se or become a political party.
After all, what was it that made the Tea Party?
These are a bunch of people that had never been politically active before who simply reacted at the outrage and the tragedy of what the Obama administration was doing to them individually.
These were people that did not have a leader.
There were no underground messages saying, show up here, organize there.
Here's how to get there.
Here's the sign to paint.
I mean, this is all legitimately grassroots, and that was the beauty of it.
And a lot of them were political independents.
A lot of them were political neophytes.
They were not ideologues, per se, in terms of being attached to a party or not.
They were just the people who make the country work.
Average, ordinary, everyday people who I believe are the ones who make the country work.
And they were simply flabbergasted and overwhelmed with what was happening.
And they spoke up at town meetings, town halls, and then they started their various Tea Party things.
And it was fabulous.
And I'm not trying to insult them at all.
I think they're great.
The fact that they don't have an identified leader, the fact that they don't have some, you know, a single unit organizer.
They're just, I mean, they are a cross-section of the people who make the country work.
You ought to strive to continue to be.
So you have McCain's 10 promises.
I don't know what they're going to be.
You have, I think it's McCain's 10.
Let me check something real quick.
I have to just double check this.
He is.
Yeah, but 10 promises of what?
10 promises that to the voters by the spring.
10 promises to the voters by the spring.
These are fraught with disaster.
You make start making these kind of, you better be prepared to back them up.
And if we're going to have a moderate Republican making promises, I don't know that and leading the 10 promises movement, and you're going to have that up against the Mount Vernon people, and you get the Tea Party people over here.
I just, I don't know.
This is, it's, it's hits.
What gives me pause is about this is that I see a potential problem is that all of these different organizations are going to get into a battle to see who is the leader of the movement and who gets to define it.
And then there are going to be litmus tests.
And if you don't pass this group's litmus test, then they start bashing you.
And you're going to have a bunch of competing statements of what either a conservative is or what either a opposition to Obama movement is going to be.
I just, all of these different things are going to be, it's like, folks, it's been going on in the conservative movement ever since Buckley died.
And ever since Buckley passed away, even slightly before that, there began in Washington among the conservative media intelligentsia a vast competition to say who would be the go-to person to define what conservatism is.
And you had moderate rhino conservatives saying they're it from David Brooks.
I don't need to go through the list of people here, but they were all vying to not get anything done, but to be the smartest guy in the room.
They wanted to be the one the media showered accolades on rather than being focused on accomplishment and getting something done that everybody wanted to end up being the one that everybody thought this is the brains behind the movement.
And when we start competing with ourselves over this kind of stuff in the midst of this golden opportunity, we don't need a bunch of competing programs that are designed to elevate individuals in a movement.
We need something that's going to advance the movement.
And that's going to be, I think, consistent with people who have that as an objective.
Well, what would you do?
Well, I don't, I've spent 21 years saying what I would do.
How could I synthesize it here?
Mr. Snurvey, what do you think?
What do I stand for?
You've been screening calls in this program for 18, 19 of the 21 years.
What do I stand for?
Limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong military tax cuts, incentivizing business, recognizing who it is that makes the country work.
It's the private sector, recognizing the history of this country and our traditions and our Constitution.
That's the only document we need.
And you apply it to every issue that comes along.
The U.S. Constitution is my 10 promises, that Bill of Rights, you can't go wrong in there.
We're in this trouble because so many people are trashing the Constitution.
A bunch of people on the left think it gets in their way.
And so they're trying to rewrite it or ignore it or create a judiciary that's rewriting it on the spot outside of the confines of the democratic process, meaning legitimate amendments, what have you.
I wrote my own stimulus plan to compete with Obama shortly after he took office, published in the Wall Street Journal.
Here's what I would do.
You're going to spend a trillion dollars on a stimulus.
Well, give me 48% of it, which is the vote Republicans got.
And let me do my magic with my 48% of the $1 trillion.
And I'll cut taxes.
Real tax rate reductions, marginal tax rate reductions.
I would zero out capital gains taxes.
I'd just cancel them for a year or two and maybe forever.
I would reduce the corporate tax rate and get it down from 35 to 10.
It's the consumer that pays corporate taxes anyway.
I would do everything I could to reduce the standard of living and mobilize, motivate, inspire people to go to work because there's going to be a payoff for it.
I'd get the government out of their way every which way I could.
And I wouldn't care.
I got the credit for it if anybody said it was my idea because they're not my ideas.
They belong to Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, Washington, a bunch of people far smarter than any of us are.
You know, my friends, it's very simple.
And I have used this phrase consistently over the course of my 20-plus years behind the golden EIB microphone, what I believe has made the country great.
And I've addressed this.
When I do my rare, overwhelmingly popular public appearances, I challenge the audience to think about something.
You ever wonder how it is and why it became so that a population at any one time of less than 300 million people created the highest standard of living, progress, economic, political, education, any standard you want to measure, the United States of America has been the greatest collection, population of human beings in the history of the world.
There have been civilizations, countries, and populations long before us that were the trademark of their day.
I mean, they're the standard bearers of their day.
They can't compare to us.
And they've been around thousands of years.
What was it?
What is it?
What is it that makes 300, our DNA is no different than the Chikom DNA?
Talking about in terms of humanity, our DNA is no different than any other human being anywhere on earth or has ever been on earth.
Well, what is it about this 200, 300 million people that are created by far, there's no comparison, the greatest country, collection of human beings on the face of the earth for good.
We feed the world.
We relieve the world.
We repair the world.
We defend the world.
We have liberated hundreds of millions of people who have lived in bondage and slavery.
What is it about us?
We're not born special in terms of our DNA.
What is it?
I ask people to think about this because I don't think this is part and parcel of what I call American exceptionalism.
What is American exceptionalism?
It's not that we're better people.
It's not that we're smarter.
It's not that we have an advantage because of our geography because we clearly don't.
But what is it that sets us apart?
And there's one answer.
And it's found in the Declaration of Independence.
We are all endowed by our Creator.
So we acknowledge God as a country.
When we were founded, we acknowledge God, that we were all created.
We are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, undeniable.
They're just there.
And they come from the Creator.
Among them, but not just life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
That's pretty simple to me.
Those three things.
The acknowledgement of our creation by God, the loving God, that our creation, that our spirit has this natural yearning to be free and to be happy.
And that there's nothing wrong with either of those.
There's nothing wrong with being creative, nothing wrong with being happy or trying to be, and there's certainly nothing wrong with living.
It was that codification that made one crucial thing possible.
And that is for ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things.
Not the smartest, not the brightest, not the well-born, not the richest.
Ordinary.
This is a nation that became the greatest nation in human history, however many hundreds of thousands, billions, whatever years you want to say we've been plodding the earth.
Ordinary people accomplishing extraordinary things, made possible by the fact that our country was founded acknowledging that our freedom comes from God, not from a government, and not from some other man or some other woman.
It does not come from a demagogue.
It does not come from somebody promising to take care of us.
It inspired people to produce, to take care of themselves and anybody else that needed it in their community via their church or whatever neighborhood organization they happen to belong to.
And that's what's been lost.
Too many people think that without government doing the right things, we can't succeed.
And the government, when run by people like running it now, get in the way and make it possible, impossible for ordinary people to do anything extraordinary.
Pardon me, friends, an inside baseball message to the broadcast engineer, Mike.
I want you to loop the past two or three monologues and just play them for the next two days, and I'm going to go play golf someplace where it's warm.
Really, that's all that needs to be said for the next two days.
That pretty much summed it up.
And we'll see you back here on Monday.
We still have one hour.
I'm just kidding.
But you know, we ought to do it.
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