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March 15, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 15, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Hand Command is away today.
This is your undocumented An Command, Mark Stein sitting in.
Rush will be back tomorrow to take you through the end of the week for uh full four days of absolutely top level excellence in broadcasting.
Uh but for today, only substitute host level uh excellence in broadcasting, I'm afraid.
We are coming to you live as we do uh when we can't take off uh because of the excessive levels of uh bovine flatulence in Vermont Airspace.
We are coming to you live from the studios of our friends at uh WNTK in uh New London, New Hampshire.
And you may remember when I was here a few weeks ago, we had an emergency, one of those emergency broadcast things go off round about this time as I was sitting here, and everybody thought, Oh my, oh my god, it was like national panic because they thought something catastrophic had happened.
Either Martians had invaded or the health care bill had passed.
But in fact it was just a flood watch in uh Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
So if we get another, it's a very rainy day today, so if we get another emergency broadcast warning that goes off uh as I'm talking, uh chances are it could be the catastrophe of Obamacare passing, uh, but it might just be a uh a flood watch in in Sullivan County.
So ki uh keep attend pay uh pay attention to that and we'll we'll try not to uh discombobulate you unduly.
Um great to be here in New London, the home of the roundabout.
I believe it's twinned with another roundabout in Saint Etienne du Rouvre.
I would like to think that uh they'd voted at town meeting to remove the roundabout, but apparently they didn't.
But uh if I if I am ever caught by a New Hampshire cop for just driving straight over that roundabout, ignoring it, uh just going straight over.
I don't I don't acknowledge uh roundabouts.
Uh I'm gonna try the excuse of this guy, Sykes, Mr. Sykes, uh, who's who's uh who claimed to have lost control of his 2008 Prius as the hybrid reached speeds of ninety-four miles per hour.
Who has ever heard of a a Prius have has anyone ever seen a Prius doing ninety-four miles per hour?
Uh uh Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
When you just when you just push it off a cliff, it'll it's uh it's generally doing ninety-five hour by the time it hits.
But but uh I mentioned uh last time I was here that my assistant's husband uh goes hunting in a Prius.
Much to uh initially to the mockery of all his uh friends who were in the in the match Macho Pigger.
No, no, no, he doesn't strap the deer to the hood.
He he actually gets the deer in the trunk with the head hanging over one side and and the little hooves hanging over the other side, and then you just.
But the problem is, I mean, I was very skeptical when I first heard that he was going hunting in a Prius, because of course your average deer can outrun a Prius, so it doesn't seem to me uh something that would come in uh terribly useful for that.
So I'm skeptical initially of this guy Sykes, uh his his uh so-called Prius uh reaching speeds of ninety-four miles per hour.
Uh and a California highway patrol officer helped uh Mr. Sykes bring the vehicle to a safe stop on Interstate Eight near San Diego.
Now, there's been all this uh there's been all this talk since uh about just what it is that's wrong with the uh the Prius.
You recall that uh the head guy at Toyota was hauled uh in front of the United States Congress to account for problems with um with uh with Toyota's gen Toyota's generally going haywire uh and getting up to unacceptable uh speeds.
Now, if you're in a Chevy, you obviously you don't have this problem because the dead weight uh of the uh of the union agreements generally drags down your speed whenever you try to get out of third gear.
But if you're in these Toyotas, they're just gonna 94 miles per hour, and uh Congress called them in to uh uh to uh to haul the head guy from Toyo Toyota over the court coals.
One of the most pitiful spectacles, by the way, I've ever seen.
This guy, this Japanese guy, runs a successful global company, unlike these ones in Detroit.
Uh, and he's hauled up before these uh congressional deadbeats uh uh and uh and told that uh they're very concerned about his product and they're gonna start uh regulating his product uh into the same kind of oblivion that they've done for uh uh for General Motors.
But but uh it now turns out that Toyota investigators cannot replicate the conditions of this runaway Prius.
They've tried everything, and they can't get the Prius uh to go ninety-four miles an hour and keep up with the escaping uh white-tailed deer in New Hampshire as they're roaming wild and free across th this nobody has done this.
Nobody can replicate the conditions with which this guy, Mr. Sykes, uh apparently uh attempted, apparently was stuck in the uh in the runaway in the runaway Prius.
Um Mr. Sykes is now saying there seems to be a lot of story revision going on here.
Uh Mr. Sykes is now saying he is not going to be suing Toyota.
I think it would be better actually if Toyota sued him.
Uh this is uh really as far as what I can tell, just a guy who either lost control of his car or decided uh that he'd like to get himself on the evening news and and as a result has done uh all kinds of damage to uh the reputation of a functioning company, but it now turns out that uh whatever he was doing in his car cannot be replicated uh by any of the uh uh any of the uh test uh engineers.
He said he had uncontrollable acceleration and that he couldn't put uh the car into neutral uh to uh uh to to bring it uh to bring it to a halt.
Uh but the but this is what we're getting into now.
The con Congress will take him seriously, pass some regulation requiring some huge contraption that will uh uh that uh that will disa uh uh uh absolutely bring your car to a halt uh at the slightest thing, there'll be some huge great lumpy things sitting next to your foot uh that if you uh if you're getting up to certain speeds will just bring it coming crashing to a halt.
Uh they'll they'll do they'll it'll set off the airbag and you'll go off onto the median and roll to a halt.
And this is the great problem with American life now.
Uh the hyper regulation, the idea that uh uh city employees in Detroit, which we were talking about in the previous um uh hour, uh city employees in Detroit are not allowed uh to use underarm deodorant now in case whatever particular flavor of deodorant you have, because you can get these you can get um I think odor-free deodorant, but most of them are all, you know, uh caramel macchiato or whatever.
They're they're flavored deodorants that people have.
And if it happens to upset your co-worker, then uh uh that's uh part of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
So the Americans with Disabilities Act now extends to your caramel macchiato underarm uh deodorant.
Uh and this is this is exactly the health care model that when you pass something, it when you have passed something at the federal level, it just grows and grows and grows until it swallows everything in sight.
Uh and what it mainly swallows is individual liberty, and what it mainly swallows is individual human judgment.
Uh your ability to ex uh to assess for yourself uh the conditions when you're driving your your Toyota Prius uh or when you're thinking what uh deodorant you'd like to wear if you go and work for the city of Detroit.
Uh what do we uh what we are now seeing is just the uh micro regulatory state on steroids, which is what this uh health care bill is going to be.
What what will what will we all be doing though uh under the under the new health care utopia?
Nancy Pelosi says she wants to give birth to a new kind of freedom in America.
The freedom from being job locked.
Speaking to Rachel Mado on MSNBC, Speaker Pelosi asked Americans to think about a bright new liberated land.
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risks, but not be job locked because a child has asthma or diabetes or someone in the family is bipolar.
You name it, any condition is job locking.
This is her new phrase, job locking.
So she now says uh that that uh essentially that government health care is liberating.
It will give you the freedom to pursue your dreams.
Now forget about the business and entrepreneurial side.
Because take it from me, there's no point being b uh entrepreneurial or having your own business in uh in America.
Uh I've just uh I just just won those little nothing things.
I mentioned it before, I made the mistake of hiring someone from New York a couple of months ago.
We never do that.
I've never seen such paperwork.
Uh we she's been on the payroll now for what is it, three months, and uh uh only today we had some new complicated bit of paperwork relating to workmen's comp from the state of New York.
Where like a corporation in New Hampshire, we made the mistake of hiring someone in New York, never do it again.
Tajikistan, that's where we're going to find our new employees.
We're we're going to Papua New Guinea.
We're gonna find unemployed headhunters in the depths of the New Guinea jungle, and we're gonna put them on the payroll because it's easier to do that uh than for someone in New Hampshire to hire someone in New York.
So forget about Nancy Pelosi's thing that we're all gonna be m more intra entrepreneurial and we're gonna be starting businesses.
And consider this thing.
She's saying that, oh, it's great now.
Now you've got government health care.
You can be an artist, you can be a photographer.
You can be a writer without worrying about well, take it look, take it from me there.
Way too many writers, way too many artists, uh way too many photographers.
Uh in there are small Vermont towns where the population demographic is like three percent dairy farmers and 97% artists.
Um I've got a friend in one of those towns who uh who made a ton of money on Wall Street and then moved to Vermont to make uh Japanese wood block prints.
And uh his business has been hit.
He's at a big Obama voter, of course, but his business has been hit because it never occurred to him uh that in an Obama economy, once it turns down, uh, one of the first things that people decide they can maybe live without is a Japanese woodlo wood block print.
So it hasn't worked out too well for him.
But in fairness to him, he made a ton of money on Wall Street and then decided he wanted to be Mr. Japanese wood block uh prints.
Now now uh Nancy Pelosi says, you don't have to worry about that, that first stage of it.
Anyone can be an artist.
Anyone can just have the freedom to live their dreams.
This is uh the opposite uh of what happens.
Uh because uh when the when the uh government sets in this kind of distortion, it so depresses who's gonna who's gonna buy your art, who's gonna buy you photographs?
If you're a writer, who's gonna read your books?
Uh this so depresses the broader economy, this so distorts the broader economy.
Uh when you remove basic economic self-interest from the equation, the idea that you are gonna be having a great renaissance of the arts is is pathetic.
I mean, take Europe, for example.
In France, everybody in um in uh Greece uh hairdressers retire at fifty, because that's just the way it is.
They're one of uh certain designated dangerous professions where you get early retirement.
Uh, because in in and in so in Greece a hairdresser is a designated dangerous profession, and they retire at fifty.
That gives you all the time in the world, from your fifty to when you drop dead at eighty, uh, to do your art and to do your photography and to do your writing.
In France, they work uh maximum thirty-five hour weeks.
They have six weeks of paid vacation, they have government health care, they have all the things that Nancy Pelosi wants to do.
Where is the great French art?
There has been no uh there has been no great uh French art, no great French films.
Remember in the 60s and 70s, your little art house theater in Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco would be paying uh one of those uh French movies where uh Isabelle Arjani or Isabel Hubert or some Isabelle or other sits on the end of the bed and smokes a cigarette as she talks to her husband about which of their respective uh uh adulterers is uh is the better in bed.
There used to be all kinds of little French art house movies playing at San Francisco, uh uh arthouse theatres.
They're gone now, gone.
Uh France has done everything Nancy Pelosi wanted to do, and there are no French artists, there are no great French filmmakers, there are no great French uh photographers.
Because in the end, uh in the end, even something like the number of artists you read is determined by the market.
Uh this economic illiteracy from Nancy Pelosi that we're gonna be living in some utopia where simply by having a massive new entitlement, new multi-trillion dollar entitlement, you'll be free to explore your calling uh and to and to give up your job and go and be the artist and live in freedom you've always wanted to be.
That is one of the even by her impressive standards, knocking on the doorstep of history, uh that that is one of the more absurd statements she has made.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for Rush.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
You know, the American thinker uh at their website, Ed Cates is a great piece on this business of uh Nancy Pelosi saying now we're all free to be artists once we once we get away from this uh backbreaking drudgery of work, uh the way she makes it sound like like this uh uh 19th century view of uh of of uh the the the worker strapped to the mill, uh going down the mine for back breaking fourteen hour shifts.
Uh and and they the American thinker, Ed Cates points out that actually that is was Karl Marx's view, that uh, as Mark said, quote, the more you have to work, the less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theater or to balls, or to the public house, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint.
And as I said, uh everything that uh Marx wanted on that front has been put into practice now uh in terms of the paid leisure uh time that they have in continental Europe.
Uh the Germans are very generous leisure time, work very short working weeks compared to uh compared to the United States.
You know, their productivity levels per hour are comparable, uh, but their economies are weaker because they soon simply don't work enough hours.
That's that's the uh problem in uh in France and Germany.
And as I said, where are the great French movies?
Where are the great French symphonies?
Where are the great French paintings?
Uh that was all back when they still had the uh the capitalist system.
Same in Germany.
Where's the great German music?
Where's your Bach of today?
Where's your Beethoven of today?
Uh where's your uh I'm trying to think of any other German uh Bert Campfort who wrote uh Strangers in the Night.
I think that was about the last great German contribution to music, and that's like forty-five years ago now.
Uh that since they introduced uh this whole pampered leisure time uh in which the government will pay you to explore your great artistic creativity, they haven't had any over there.
Uh whereas America's capitalist system uh has uh given the world uh motion pictures, uh jazz, uh great uh brand new art forms started from scratch, uh simply by uh by leaving it to the market.
Let's go to Fred in Homer, Alaska.
Fred, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Good morning.
It's uh pleasure to be here.
You're far too modest of a host.
And uh I have I have Barack Obama's modesty.
His natural self-deprecating qualities.
Not even close.
Anyway, I was saying that, you know, my wife and I listened to all this these things that the president is proposing, and we disagree with his policies, and we're always saying he is he's an idiot or he's wrong, or this, that, and the other, but it's quite the opposite.
This man is not an idiot.
He is very, very intelligent.
He knows exactly what he's doing.
You do not rise to the highest office in the land by being dumb.
His agenda is very purposeful, and it is to control, as has been said, every aspect of our life, and it is so unfortunate that people of my generation, I'm a little past the halfway mark, I'm in my fifties.
I grew up with freedom.
I grew up knowing what America is.
The older people are dying off, and his intent is to get rid of them quicker so they cannot tell their grandchildren what freedom is about, what America stands for, and how to be an American.
And then the younger people are growing up, being indoctrinated with, hey, this is the new America.
It's all touchy feeling, and everything's gonna be wonderful.
We're all gonna have the same.
And it doesn't work.
If you don't work, that's a very good that's a very good point, Fred, that uh you lose societal memory very quickly.
And you can see you can see that in what's happened in other countries.
Uh that uh people who a couple of generations ago uh took individual liberty for granted soon become very compliant and complacent uh subjects of the nanny state, uh existing on the nanny state uh drip feed and and content uh to do it.
And I think you're right that um obviously a guy who gets to be president of the United States isn't stupid.
If nothing else, he has a a talent for uh for for ruthless self-advancement, at least as far as he himself is concerned.
Uh but in the broader sense, too, uh Obama Gets something uh actually very important, and that is to say that for all the failures of this first year, there's a reason why at a uh a time of uh uh dreadful economy and with two wars, he chose to focus on health care.
Because he knows that if he rams this thing through, all the other stuff will be irrelevant.
That this is the great transformative moment, that this shifts the balance, shifts the balance between the citizen and the state.
Uh it is a transformative act.
And if he does that, he will be a significant president, regardless of what happens in Afghanistan or in Iraq, regardless of the ten percent unemployment rate and the problems in the economy.
If he gets this thing through, he changes the game.
Uh and that's why he's sticking with it.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein InfoRush on the EIB network.
Rush returns tomorrow.
Yes, America's Ancommand is away.
Your undocumented anchor man sitting in and honored, honored to be here.
Uh I mentioned uh I mentioned a few moments ago that in Greece certain dangerous professions uh are allowed to take uh allowed to retire at 50 because the the professions are so dangerous that they've been designated uh as high-risk professions, and so you should be allowed you can only do them for a few years and they'll kill you.
Uh so you you have to be allowed to take early retirement at 50.
And I mentioned the way that any government program always expands, whatever rationale it might have for for uh in the beginning, it always expands, like this thing where uh twenty-two per cent of driver's licenses uh on the roads of California are shielded.
This originally was done so that, for example, if a uh cop uh or a uh someone uh someone involved in the district attorney's office was uh uh was involved in a case, you couldn't read his license plate and find out who he is and get his home address and uh you know uh apply any kind of pressure to him.
But naturally it expanded from the police department uh to the guy at the uh Department of Sewage or the Bureau of Home Furnishings that they have in California.
Did you know that?
There's actually a Bureau of Home Furnishings in California.
You sleep soundly at night in California because your pillow is regulated by the California Bureau of Home Furnishings.
So all these people, if you work for the California Bureau of Home Furnishings, you now have your license plate shielded, and you can go around speeding all over the country because you're a protected profession.
And it's the same way in the so-called dangerous professions they have in Greece, who the government now says can retire at fifty.
That's why uh a hairdresser can retire to uh at fifty, because uh they have to work with different chemicals every day dyes, ammonia, uh you name it, and they uh and well, yes, scissors scissors can be scissors can be dangerous too.
Uh so it's a it's a dangerous profession, so hairdressers have to be allowed to retire at 50 in Greece.
Um coal min it started originally with coal miners and people in bomb disposal, but it soon expanded from bomb disposal to hairdressing.
Um it also covers radio and television hosts.
You can retire at 50 as a radio and TV host in Greece because you're thought to be at risk from the bacteria on your microphone.
Oh my god!
Why didn't you tell me about this?
Is there has this has this microphone been checked out for uh for bacteria?
I'm my uh my life expectancy is falling over.
Nobody mentioned anything to me.
This is why we should now introduce, as Nancy Pelosi wants to do, this kind of uh this th this kind of liberating uh quality to the to the employment market, so that I will not be at risk here from all the my uh bacteria on the microphone.
I'm at the studios of WNTK.
So fortunately it's not like a radio station in Detroit where some guy with no underarm deodorant has been uh near the microphone, so uh the bacteria from his armpit or the uh or the farm of grazing Holsteins next door has got itself onto onto the microphone.
But I think that's that's true, actually.
Uh HR points out that here in New Hampshire, where we're only uh above freezing for two months of the year, that the a lot of the bacteria will be killed by the sub-zero temperatures uh in the studio.
So perhaps I might stand a good chance of making it to uh 53 or 54.
But in Greece, in Greece you can retire at 50 because of the uh a TV or radio host.
That's a protected profession, it's a dangerous job like bomb disposal, you can retire at 50 because of the bacteria on the microphone.
Also musicians playing wind instruments.
Speaking of Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Belosi was saying that uh you should be free to explore your uh creative uh whims and be an artist or be a writer or be a musician or be a poet.
Uh well a musician playing a wind instrument uh can retire at fifty in Greece because they have to contend with gastric reflux as they puff and blow.
So for example, under Nancy Pelosi's Utopia, it's not just that you can give up your boring day job and uh and grab that wind instrument and start playing it.
But you'll be able to you'll be able to retire at fifty uh because of the risk of gastric reflux from puffing and blowing uh for for for for your productive years.
The other interesting thing is that in Greece certain uh government workers get fourteen monthly paychecks a year.
Can you do the math?
I think even in American grade schools that arithmetic doesn't work.
Uh fourteen monthly payments you get fourteen monthly payments every year if you're a Greek government worker and then you retire in your fifties and you get fourteen monthly pension payments a year.
That is what big government can do.
It redefines the very concept of time because it's tough isn't it having to having to wait a whole month for a monthly paycheck wouldn't it be a lot easier if there were fourteen months in the year?
If you work for the Greek government you can uh you you get fourteen monthly paychecks a year.
Now what everybody knows about this is that uh is that if Greece goes belly up it's it's no big deal.
It's a problem for Greece uh and it's a problem for some of its European neighbors but it's not critical for the world.
When the United States attempts Greek government from Maine to Hawaii we're looking at a catastrophe on a scale never seen before in human history.
In other words this is a this isn't going to be Greece uh this isn't gonna be just your run of the mill uh uh first world basket case this is on a scale never before seen in human history on that cheery note let us go to Ron in Cincinnati Ohio.
Ron do you work in a a dangerous profession like uh bomb disposal or hairdressing?
No no Mr Stein I'm so glad to have a chance to talk to you but I'm just an insurance salesman.
Oh you're the problem you're the enemy then well I should have demonized you before we took the call.
Actually from my point of view I I've been doing this for about thirty seven years and um in the health insurance field and certainly over that time when I first started gosh we used to sell 40 dollar a day contracts for hospital room and board but I I wanted to mention that if if Madame Pelosi would maybe go back and look at what Ronald Reagan did in the second term um during that time I remember when they came out with HIPAA,
I guess an acronym for um health insurance portability and accountability and at that point in time uh the Congress and and President Reagan really did address job lock.
Uh they came out with a program called Cobra which was actually a budget reconciliation act and that allowed people uh to go from one job to another and keep their health insurance.
I think reforms like that, although they're they're talking about health reform I think it's real really should be called health um overhaul but health reform is something that over the last thirty seven years I've seen sort of take little steps, incremental steps towards a sort of a common goal and and it's usually been run by the states although the states have to sort of keep up with what the federal government requires they have to equal what the mandates are but they can exceed them as well.
States like Kentucky and Massachusetts mandate health insurance for their uh residents but uh the state like that I live in in Ohio uh takes care of it uninsured people by having what's called open enrollment and and uh each year Mr. Stein what they do is they they pick a company or two and they say okay you have uh you have two or three months and anybody who applies you have to take and preexisting conditions are covered.
Now granted it is very expensive.
Right.
Um and I think what what I would like to see is is maybe rather than overhaul a system that's been around for 140, 150 years is is do what we have done over the last thirty seven years is approach the problem.
Uh the problem of maybe giving tax credits or subsidies to those that are finding it difficult to pay the premiums.
But but but when you say when you say just giving tax credits for for uh those who find it difficult uh or who don't perhaps know, haven't looked ahead, find themselves with uh with a problem, tax credits would be the easiest thing to do in a moment.
If you had something what uh what do they call it, the um uh the set, which is basically a kind of payment you get at the end of the year that is like a like a sort of uh ad hoc pension, you put it in a separate account.
If you draw that account and use it as income, you're taxed on it, but if you just leave it toward your pension, you don't pay tax on it.
Why can't you just do that with a uh with a health account?
That would be the work of minutes to do that.
They have uh the medical savings account from eighty six and and they've turned it into um they've advanced it over the years and made it something that people can put larger and larger sums away in, is a very good approach to sort of taking care of a lot of other ancillary expenses being dental, vision, etcetera.
But what I've seen is is i th the states in conjunction with the Fed sort of approaching things incrementally.
Maternity at one point was considered to be something other than an illness.
It was treated separately, and then they made a change and they said it's gonna be treated the same.
Uh mental nervous disorders used to have internal limits and and limitations on the amount of money that would be paid, and then they came out with a parity act.
Um Yeah, but that that is something, for example, that will go in all kinds of odd directions under a centralized government uh way of doing things.
So for example, if you look at uh the way it works in Canada, you'll wait uh you'll you'll you'll wait eighteen months for an MR a basic MRI.
Uh but if you're a transsexual who wants to have a labia plasty, uh you will be a able to get that on the uh you'll be able to get that for the government to pick up the tab for that.
So it goes in eccentric d it it goes in eccentric and politically driven decisions once it becomes done, uh I I think at the federal level.
Ron, quickly, just before we go though, one one other quick point.
This is true.
You've been demonized by Barack Obama, you horrible insurers.
But uh as it happens, uh you've been the ones blamed for the spiraling cost of health care.
But in fact, you only account uh in insurance companies only account for five percent of the costs of American health care, isn't that correct?
That you know, honestly, Mr. Stein, uh that I don't know.
Um you know, having worked with clients directly over thirty-seven years, I I can empathize with these increases that they experience fifteen percent sometimes is much higher than that.
But it's a what I mean what is what I mean is you're not the ones getting that.
That the actual that uh essentially if you like the administration fee uh that the insurance companies are responsible for is the equivalent to about five is the equivalent to about five percent.
In other words, five percent of Americans' health care costs is the cost of the insurance company and its employees and their salaries and all the rest of it.
It's not a significant item.
No.
No, and and uh if you introduce a program uh that will take into account pre-existing conditions and no exclusions, you will in essence dismantle something that's been around for over a hundred years and it's simply not going to work anymore.
I mean the program.
No, and and and uh and Ron, we we gotta run 'cause I'm late with the late late with the break, but it's uh been great talking to you.
But uh you know, that is the point, isn't it?
Because a couple of years' time they'll be able to say, well, look, we've so distorted the insurance market, the private insurance doesn't work any longer.
That is why we need one centralized single payer Washington uh directed uh agency to supervise all this.
Because that's that is not a bug, that is a feature, as the computer guys say.
Uh when when you uh tell insurance agencies they've got to cover pre-existing conditions, private insurance doesn't work, and that gives the government a pretext to step in a couple of years down the line.
Uh thank you to Ron in Cincinnati.
Mark Stein in for rush, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
Uh Cindy Sheehan is restarting her campaign against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, setting up tents near the Washington Monument.
Uh the camp is going to be called Camp Out Now and it's supposed to pressure President Obama and the Democrats.
Uh and uh she notes uh that I love the way I love the way she puts this.
Uh Cindy Sheehan notes the movement has lost much of its steam since Bush left office.
You don't say.
Try looking for this Cindy Sheehan story uh in your local newspaper and see whether they're they're covering it.
Nobody cares.
They're not gonna do this.
They don't care about uh Iraq and Afghanistan anymore.
Obama can send all the unmanned drones uh he wants across the border, dropping bombs on uh Waziristani villages uh every night of the week, and nobody cares because this is more important to him.
Getting this health care thing, getting the dead goat carcass of Obamacare across the bridge, burning the bridge, uh that will count for more.
What he will do to America uh will be far more than anything he could do to Afghanistan or Iraq.
Uh that's why Cindy Sheehan isn't gonna be getting any coverage for that.
Let's go to Tom in South Holland, Illinois.
Tom, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Pleasure to talk to you, Mark.
Uh in all this uh discussion we have about the health care bill and about what we want the senators to do and not centers to do, but I want to tell you there's a formidable block of people out there and I'll call the Tea Partiers.
I was at the Tea Party in New Lennox here in Illinois.
And I think the formidable arc of these people are going to s say, finally, we're gonna take the country back because we've been asking for a few things.
We've been asking for interstate uh d to drop their uh fences so that the interests can go in uh the uh insurance companies go interstate.
Right.
Maybe there's nothing we can do about that, but there is something we can do.
We can take the name of every senator that votes for this bill, and I mean every senator.
And next time they come up for re election, you boot them out of office.
It's called term limits.
We'll form our own term limits.
They don't have to worry about them enacting anything.
You vote them out of office, you keep their names down her, and uh the problem with the American people sometimes is they just don't want to take that half hour, forty five minutes, an hour to go vote.
Well, if your microwave breaks down to not doing what you want to do, don't you sit there and wait half an hour, an hour for the guy to come to fix it.
Same thing with your furnace.
And and this time I think a significant chunk are motivated because they understand something very basic here.
That there's that this what is going on at the moment is unaffordable.
It's basically it is the express lane to uh to Greece on a cosmic scale.
Uh and that is why they get that in a very basic sense.
That when you start throwing words like trillion around every couple of minutes, that every major new entitlement becomes perfectly normal to discuss uh funding government programs in trillion dollar terms.
They get that what's what they're doing is actually uh voting to destroy their own future.
They're voting to deny themselves a future and their children and grandchildren.
And that's why I think, Tom, that this is uh this is something different in scale uh from anything that's that went on before.
Different even from nineteen ninety four, I think.
I want to make two.
You keep bringing up Nancy Pelosi's name and the Detroit situation there.
Well, it's nice that you pick that up because it's a perfect example that Darwin's theory can go either way.
Right.
Explain that's the same thing about Nancy Pelosi.
It's the best thing I can say about her.
Oh well, you're gentlemanly to uh to leave it like that.
Look, the the the problem is that even Barbara Boxer in county Nancy Pelosi is safe, but Barbara Box, a California Senator, her job is in peril.
Uh, because even in California, they get that this is the end.
This is the end.
End of movie, end of the American dream.
There isn't gonna be an American dream.
The people won't know the expression in thirty years' time if all this go goes through.
Like there's no like there's no Belgian dream.
Like there's no Greek dream.
There isn't gonna be an American dream if this goes through.
And that's why this is different, and that's why people are gonna keep the pressure up, and that's why people are remembering these names uh and enforcing their own term limits, which are the best kind of all, the ones set by the people calling their representatives to account.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
I I I've had a ton of emails, by the way.
You know, I expressed skepticism about that Prius that was uh out of control Prius that was doing ninety-four miles per hour.
And I expressed skepticism about the ninety-four miles per hour.
Uh and uh several readers pointed out that uh a c a few years ago Al Gore Junior's Prius was stopped uh and it was going a hundred miles uh per hour.
Now I d uh I don't know what uh that I don't know whether that was uh running on uh on Al Gore's carbon offsets or whatever, or it may be that Al Gore's uh Junior Al Gore Jr.'s car, his Prius was uh an um an early sufferer from this condition that afflicts uh what do they call that?
A Prius existing condition, I think.
And isn't that what the insurance call it?
And anyway, uh but the uh never mind the Prius existing uh condition.
Al Gore's Junior Al Gore Jr.'s car was doing a hundred miles per hour.
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