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March 30, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 30, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in.
Honored to be here.
Great honor for a foreigner and illegal alien.
I'm from the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Always great to be with you.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow.
And then Rush returns Thursday.
As we explained yesterday, Rush is at an undisclosed location checking out still viable healthcare systems on the other side of the world.
He flew 18 hours to get there.
It's 15 hours back.
And if you can identify the particular jurisdiction that he went to and in which he has found this still-functioning healthcare system, then you could win your very own Rush Limbaugh guest host.
So do let us know that.
Breaking news, breaking news.
Ricky Martin comes out.
What, as a Dick Cheney fan?
No, no, no.
Ricky Martin, I am a homosexual man.
Well, I'm shocked.
I'm shocked.
In other news, Dog Bites Man.
I mention this only because, only because, as you know, if you heard yesterday's show, Frank Rich attributed opposition to healthcare reform to us angry white males' homophobia.
The reason we object to this multi-trillion dollar spending and unconstitutional power grab is because we're uncomfortable with Barney Frank's gayness.
This is the argument advanced by the New York Times.
So now with Ricky Martin coming out, we've yet another reason to oppose government healthcare.
This is good.
This could be a whole new shot in the arm for the anti-healthcare movement.
You know, we didn't have all these gay pop stars back when people paid for their own damn healthcare.
It wasn't like this in Tony Orlando's day or The Four Lads.
We didn't have these problems with gay pop stars back when ukulele Ike was at the top of the charts in 1926.
It was a whole different scene.
So I think this has been a whole shot in the arm to the opposition to healthcare reform from us homophobic, racist, misogynist bigots.
This is terrific news.
Live in La Vida Loca.
That's what we're doing in Obama's America today.
Live in La Vida Loca, and that's what we'll be doing for the next three hours.
1-800-282-2882 on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I'd like to say a big shout out to any Larry King fans listening today.
Any Larry King fans listening today.
Larry King's audience has fallen by 52% this month.
Not literally fallen.
They didn't, you know, go upstairs to upstairs to the bathroom during one of the breaks and make the mistake of not taking the little old chairlift up the stairs and decide, hey, what the heck, this time I'll try and do it on my own, like the old days when I first started watching Larry.
And then unfortunately, 52% of them fell trying to get back before he completed his exclusive interview with Tina Louise.
Is it Tina Louise Larry was interviewing or Tina Louise or Anne Margaret?
It's usually a female star with two first names from the 1960s.
Don't get me wrong, I love Larry.
Tina Louise for the full hour.
Exclusive.
Of course it's exclusive.
I love, don't get me wrong.
I love Tina Louise too.
I love Aunt Margaret.
I love Margaret Louise.
If she's out there and she wants to be on the Larry King show, come on down.
But Larry, Larry King's audience has fallen by 52%.
This is CNN's ratings now are down somewhere between Robert Mugabe's approval rating and the Ebola virus.
Amazing.
They're getting to the point where they're undetectable now.
CNN fails to stop fall in ratings.
This was Larry's worst quarter ever in the 137 years he's been anchoring the 9 p.m. slot at CNN.
This was his worst ratings quartering a quarter ever.
The Fox News channel is way up.
My, there's a surprise.
But MSNBC and CNN are way down.
CNN fails to stop fall in ratings.
This is from the New York Times, so it must be true.
CNN executives have steadfastly said they will not change their approach to primetime programmings because at this stage of the game, it's easier to wait till the last seven viewers die off.
It's quite frankly, and then just start from scratch.
Which I love the way the New York Times puts this, though.
CNN executives have steadfastly said that they will not change their approach to primetime programs, which are led by hosts not aligned with any partisan point of view.
This is Anderson Cooper, by the way.
Anderson, you know what Anderson Cooper is most famous for?
His great gift to the political culture of the United States is he's the one who introduced the term teabagger, which as Rush was saying a few days ago is the name for a particular type of sexual practice that obviously we don't want to go into in case any Larry King fans who've tuned in haven't got their pacemakers set to the right level yet.
So we're not going to go into what teabagging means.
But Anderson Cooper is the man who put teabagger on the front into the political discourse.
It's now used regularly by senators.
Chuck Schumer disparages the Tea Party movement as teabaggers.
This is Anderson Cooper's great gift.
And he, by the way, Anderson Cooper is the hot young talent.
You know, Larry is getting up there in years.
He's almost as old as some of the celebrity guests from the 60s he interviews.
And Larry's getting up there in years.
But Anderson Cooper is the hot young thing.
And you know how you can tell that he's the hot young thing at CNN is because he's only lost 42% of his viewers.
He's only lost 42% of his viewers, whereas Larry has lost 52%.
So clearly, clearly, Anderson Cooper is the wave of the future.
This 42% audience losing hot young talent is really what CNN needs to build its audience, or at any rate, decimate its audience at a marginally slower rate in the future.
Anderson Cooper is clearly the way to go.
So Larry is one.
And don't get me wrong, I love Larry King.
You know, these awful shows he does where he has, when he does the politics and he'll have six senators on.
And I cannot stand that.
I mean, how anyone could think it's a ratings winner to have a panel of senators?
Like, one senator is enough.
There's like 12% of your audience gone.
If you put six senators up there in a row, I would be surprised you lose 52% of the audience.
The only thing I like about him is when he does the teenaleries for the full hour.
That's the only thing I like.
And I don't know, I'm not saying I watch CNN a lot.
The only time I watch CNN is if I go to, like I do the show here, and I rush to, like I'm in New York at Radio City sitting in for Rush, and I head off to the airport to catch my flight back to New Hampshire.
And it's the four o'clock fight, so naturally it's delayed till nine o'clock, and you sit there at CNN watching six hours of Rush Blitz at the gate.
This is why people hate CNN, by the way.
Associate it with canceled flights because CNN thought it would be a smart move to get a hammer lock on every single airport in the United States.
And instead, now it's like a psychological thing, isn't it?
No, exactly.
If you take the proportion of CNN's audience that is actually just sitting at the gate in prison there watching Wolf Blitzer, so now I associate with Wolf Blitzer when you go through the full body scanner and they pull you over for secondary screening.
The two things.
It's like a visceral thing.
I can't sit in my home, switch on Wolf Blitzer, because I get a kind of itch behind me because it reminds me of unpleasant encounters at LAX.
And so this is part of the problem for CNN.
But, you know, because the alternative view that the problem for CNN is that they're presenting a hopelessly biased view of events in the United States in a spectacularly dull format, that is, of course, too absurd for words.
So I think we have to look deep for deeper reasons.
Maybe Larry King needs to do two-hour specials with Tina Louise.
This is what it needs to turn CNN around.
So at any rate, there are problems.
There are problems at CNN and the mainstream media.
And I don't know what it's amazing things.
CNN and MSNBC are way down, and the Fox News channel is way up.
Now, that is bizarre.
I wonder what could possibly account for that.
Anyway, we'll be Living La Vida Loca on the show for the next three hours, taking your calls, 1-800-282-2882.
We would like to hear from any Larry King fans or Tina Louise fans.
I don't think we're tracking.
I haven't looked at any Rasmussen numbers on it, but I don't think we're tracking where Tina Louise fans stand on healthcare reform.
So I'd be interested to see how that pans out.
Health premiums may rise 17% for young adults buying own insurance.
This is from USA Today.
There's a surprise.
Health premiums may rise 17% for young adults buying own insurance.
You voted for Obama.
You brought this world into being.
You know, the boomers and the Gen Xers and the greatest generation, we're living La Vida Loca.
You're going to be Living La Vida broker.
It's over for you.
Health premiums may rise 17% for young adults buying own insurance.
I don't even know what the term young adults means now, because when Obama's going around the country talking about how children can now stay on their parents' health insurance, he means children aged 26.
So if 26 is a child in the United States these days, I don't know what young adult means, probably about 43, 44 years old.
But at any rate, you're looking at a 17% increase in the cost of your health care.
Consider 24-year-old Nils Higdon, a self-employed percussionist and part-time teacher in Chicago.
He pays $140 each month for health insurance.
And the law calls on Mr. Higdon.
It's nice of them to tell him this.
It'd be nicer if they told him this in advance.
The law relies on Mr. Higdon to shoulder more of the financial load in new health insurance risk pools.
So under the new system, Higdon could expect to pay $300 to $500 a year more for his health insurance.
That's the point.
That's the only way, that's the only way this thing is going to work.
You toss more people into the private insurance pool who wouldn't have qualified for insurance before, who are for various reasons uninsurable or high risk.
It means that you guys who are healthy and young and fit, you are going to have to pay higher costs to cover all the costs of the government tossing all these people into the pool.
And when private insurance can't do that, or when private insurers decide that they're going to get out of the health insurance business entirely, that is when Obama and the Democrats will step in and say, well, this shows this is just why we need to move to a single-payer government system.
As they're doing, by the way, on the subject of federal loans.
They're basically federalizing the college loan system so that when you're one of these people who decides to stay on your parents' health insurance till you're 26 and you want to kill eight years doing women's studies at some college or whatever, it will be the federal government now who will be taking over the college loan business.
We'll talk about that.
We'll talk about healthcare.
We'll talk about some of the other developments going on as we live La Vida Loca.
We'll talk about, I don't know whether Larry King has got an exclusive interview lined up with Ricky Martin in which Ricky Martin disappeared.
Yeah, Ricky Martin, Ricky Martin for the full hour.
I don't think so.
I don't think so because Ricky Martin, Johnny Mathis for the full hour.
That might be more Larry's scene.
But we don't know.
Anyway, Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
Lots more still to come.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for rush.
I wasn't expecting.
We are living La Vida Loca.
Ricky Barton.
Ricky Barton has come out today.
I think he came out late last night, actually.
There's a surprise.
There's a, there is a stunner.
But my word, that is a bouncy record, is it?
I feel like coming out myself when I hear that.
What a terrific, what a terrific song.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for Rush.
We are living La Vida Loca in America.
Things that are happening that would have seemed entirely insane even 10 years ago, we now take for granted as a permanent feature of life under rule by the Obama clatura.
I love the way Bill Clinton.
This is the difference between Bill Clinton and Obama, by the way.
Bill Clinton said, oh, as soon as Obama gets this healthcare thing through, his numbers are going to go back up again.
Well, we've now had the first poll conducted since the healthcare bill passed, and Obama's approval rating, 47% approved, 50% disapproved.
This is the first time the Obama disapproval rating has hit 50%.
So there was no bounce.
I don't think he cares, by the way, about the bounce.
He's not like Clinton.
Clinton was all bounce.
He was bouncy, bouncy, bouncy.
He was bouncier than Ricky Martin singing La Vida Loca.
Clinton, all he cared about was the bouncy.
All he cared about was getting the polls done, getting Dick Morris to do another poll, getting somebody to do a focus group.
Do you remember that thing where Dick Morris conducted a poll to find out where people thought he should go on his vacation?
And it emerged that all the places that Clinton was spending his vacation, he went to Martha's Vineyard and the Hamptons, and he didn't like that.
He loved that.
He liked hanging out with all the celebrities, Carly Simon and Steven Spielberg.
But Dick Morris did a poll and showed that more people would like it if he went on a simple backpacking holiday.
I think it was somewhere in Montana or Idaho.
So he went backpacking with his family in Montana and Idaho, had a miserable time, and his poll numbers went down.
And Clinton was furious with Dick Morris because he hadn't even had the benefit of a fantastic vacation on Martha's Vineyard.
But apart from all that, his numbers wound up going down anyway.
So the difference between Clinton and Obama is Obama doesn't care about that.
He doesn't care if you don't like him.
You can disapprove of him all the time.
He's the president and you're not, and he's going to do it to you.
He's going to stick it to you.
He's going to shove this healthcare thing down your throat whether you want it or not.
He couldn't care less about his approval ratings.
Not interested.
Not interested.
Because he's got bigger fish to fry.
And what he's interested in is transforming America into a big government state.
Now, nearly two-thirds of Americans say the health care overhaul signed into law last week costs too much and expands the government's role in healthcare too far.
Now, that's a great insight, by the way, because government health care is about government, not about health care.
And that's what all this stuff that Obama is doing has in common.
Obama has a view of government as, in effect, the primary source of legitimacy in American life.
And that's where this very interesting federalization of college loans comes in.
Whatever you think about college loans, it would be better, it would be better, I believe, if the private sector does college loans than if the government winds up with a monopoly of college loans.
At the moment, I should declare an interest here.
I've just got back from a little stint at Hillsdale College in Michigan that Rush likes to talk about from time to time.
Rush is friends with Larry Arn, who runs Hillsdale College and likes it, and they like each other very much, and they agree on a lot of things.
Well, Hillsdale won't take any government money.
It uniquely won't take any government money because if you take any government money, then the federal government or the state government has the right to come in onto your campus and check you're in compliance with all kinds of things.
Now, 100 years ago, that wasn't a big deal because it meant you had to be in compliance with a couple of financial reporting requirements and the fire code.
But these days, it means you have to be in compliance with what is essentially ideological matters on gay equality, for example.
And if you don't want to be, if you want to have the freedom to discuss those kinds of issues honestly, then taking government money is a huge obstacle to that.
And so Hillsdale doesn't want to take any government money because they know if you get 2% of your income from the government, they control 100% of everything that you do.
They have a veto on everything that you do.
That's certainly how it works in other parts of the Western world.
So this federalization of the college loan business is not about making it easier for people to go to college.
It is about making it easier for the government to control what is taught in those colleges.
In other words, it's a method of ideological enforcement.
And this is what's going on now in all kinds of small little unobtrusive ways in every area of American life.
We take the automobile industry and we divert them into producing so-called green cars that they wouldn't want to do of their own accord.
We federalize the college loan industry and you have government directing the content of what goes on in American higher education.
We federalize health care and that gives the government the right, in effect, to determine how you live your life in every respect.
Great to be with you.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow.
Rush returns Thursday, invigorated from his long-distance trip to check out, to check out still functioning health care systems on the other side of the planet.
Let us go to Peggy in Noblesville, Indiana.
Peggy, you're live on the Rush Limbusho.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you.
I wanted to mention to you that I work out at LA Fitness.
I love going there.
And about a month ago, I walked in and no longer could I get Fox News.
I could only get CNN.
I could get ESPN and I could get a workout advertisement on a TV.
That's all they have.
Right.
What's the workout advertisement on the TV?
You could get a Brazilian butt.
You could do Zumba.
Wait a minute.
What do you mean you could get a Brazilian butt?
We're outsourcing butts to Brazil.
What's the deal with that?
Is that one of the jobs Americans won't do now?
What do you mean?
Get a Brazilian butt.
I don't know.
It's so disappointing.
And I complained, and they said you should email LA Fitness and let them know that you want Fox News back.
So I want to encourage anybody who works out at L.A. Fitness to let them know we want Fox News.
So L.A. Fitness is like a nationwide chain of...
They're not a sponsor of this show, are they, H.R., before we...
They're not a sponsor of this show, are they, HR, before we...
No, before we...
That's right.
Not after we mock.
They certainly won't be after we mock their Brazilian butts from coast to coach.
So we're going to kick their Brazilian butt.
So they have dropped Fox, and they're now making you work out to Wolf Blitzer for hours on end.
How's that feel?
Horrible.
I just turn on my iPod and shut my eyes.
Really?
So you're not enjoying working out to, well, what time do you go in?
Because you don't work out to Larry King, do you?
Because I think that could get pretty scary.
No, no, no.
We're very early in the morning.
They open at 5 a.m.
So we get in there at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. in the morning.
Okay, so you're like working out to their early morning anchors.
Yeah.
Oh, dear, this is not good news at all.
Now, is this anything to do with the we can blame on Obamacare?
Because is it something to do with federally regulated health clubs now are only obliged to carry Obamacare approving media?
Is it something to do with that, do you think?
Oh, you're pushing my buttons.
I'm a business manager in a medical practice, so we could go on and on with all that.
So I think I'll get prepared.
Okay, well, if you're a business manager in a medical practice, you need to be working out because a couple of years' time, you're going to be up in the hills foraging for berries.
So you want to make sure you're fit and likely to increase your chances of being able to live out in the wilds because it's not going to be a great business to be in two or three, four years down the line.
Exactly right.
You're exactly right.
Well, thanks for that.
We'll do our best.
LA Fitness members, coast to coast, contact LA Fitness and say you do not want, you're maybe agnostic on the question of the Brazilian butt, but you definitely do not want to work out to Wolf Blitzer.
Thank you.
Thank you for your call, Peggy.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, let's go to Nita in Dallas.
Nita, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you.
You know, I just really have a concern about the government takeover of the student loan program, especially with the references to maybe changing our high school requirements so that certain people can graduate early or complete high school with less than 12 years.
Right.
And with the idea that some people are not suited for college, and maybe other people are.
And if there's a shortage of doctors, maybe you only get so many student loans for this, but you need more doctors, so you're going to give more student loans for that.
I don't think that is going to be an issue because I would wager that when you look at the coming doctor shortage, what that is going to mean is that there's going to be a massive importation of doctors from overseas.
Because there are never enough people, once you have a government healthcare system, you can never train up enough people who want to become doctors anyway.
You go to all the medical schools in the United Kingdom, for example.
They're full of people from Pakistan and Botswana and Iraq.
And you can never, once it's a government healthcare system, you can never train enough local doctors from within your own high school population.
But you're right, that the minute they get a monopoly on it, then they can effectively direct you into whatever courses they want you to do.
So university college further education becomes the opposite of what it was intended to.
Instead of it ought to be something that's entirely open to inquiry, it expands your horizons, and instead it's going to be something where the government directs your shrivels your horizons and directs your focus down whatever particular alley they think is in the best interest of whatever they got planned for you.
Exactly.
So that we're all comrades and you have maybe identification early on in the education system because the government already has so much to say about that now.
Of what your potential to help the greater good of the country rather than you deciding this is what I love to do and this is what I want to do with my life.
Well, and by the way, this idea that everybody should go to college, if everybody does go to college, if everybody did go to college, that would just give the American education system yet another excuse to defer teaching people anything later and later.
I mean, basically, in high school, they teach what they should be teaching in middle school.
You say, which is true, that they're now proposing to have early graduation from high school because people don't finish high school.
And so instead of saying, well, that's because they're bored and or whatever, and maybe we ought to teach them more, maybe we ought to figure out some way to hold their attention till 12th grade, they say, oh, what the hell does it matter?
Let's just give them the certificate in the 10th grade or the 9th grade, and it doesn't really matter.
And so if you just say, well, everybody, the entire population now can go to college till they're 24, 25, 26, all that's going to wind up from that is that eventually we'll be teaching in college what we should be teaching in middle school.
This endless expansion of education but getting less and less into it is actually extremely bad for it's bad for the demographic, it's bad for economically, it's bad demographically, it's bad on a whole ton of things.
Thank you for your call, Nita.
Great to talk to you.
This is, by the way, quite an important point.
If you look at the way, for example, old traditional societies used to work, you were basically a child until you were about 14 or 15, and then you were an adult, and then you died.
And those were basically the two stages of life.
You were a child till you were 14 or 15, then you were an adult, then you died.
That was it.
Now we've got a situation where, as the president has said, you're a child until you're 26.
At 26, the age of 26, you're still eligible to be on your parents' health care insurance because you're still a child.
We've created this whole new stage of adolescence, which now can extend officially under the Obama administration until the age of 26, but in some European countries, it extends into the early 30s.
There was a guy somewhere in Italy whose daughter had been working on her thesis about the Holy Grail for eight years.
She was 32, and he figured at 32, maybe you either ought to finish your thesis or abandon it and get a job and get the hell out of there.
So she took him to court and the court argued that he had to go on paying her 500 euros a month, even though she's a middle-aged woman.
She's a middle-aged woman, but Italy still regards her as a child.
We're not there yet.
We're not there yet.
That's 32 in Italy.
We've just got up to 27.
Your 27th birthday, according to President Obama, is the point at which an American boy becomes a man and moves out of his parents' health insurance agency.
So we've created this whole new intervening stage of life of adolescence, which now ends, according to President Obama, on your 27th birthday.
When does it start?
Well, you know, if you're an 11-year-old and you want to get some sex advice from your teacher or you want to have an abortion, oh, there's no question of telling your parents about that.
If you're like an 11-year-old and you want to have an abortion, that you're a fully grown, matured person and you're entitled to make your own decision on that.
So we accept in our bizarre world that your body, your body matures earlier and earlier.
So if you're an 11-year-old and you get pregnant, you're a 10-year-old and you get pregnant, you're in fourth grade, third grade, and you get pregnant, you're a fully matured person.
And at the other end of the spectrum, we'll say, no, no, no, but the mental ability, the ability to take responsibility for your own life on any issues other than sex doesn't begin until your 27th birthday.
For everything else, when it comes to having an abortion, you can make you fully competent to make your own decision at 11.
When it comes for any other health care issues, you should be on your parents' health insurance till your 27th birthday.
This is crazy.
It's economically deformed, but it's also bad for the country and for society in general in a far more fundamental way.
Mark Stein and for Rush, lots more to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Andrew in Melbourne.
Melbourne, you're probably wondering what state that's in.
It's in the great state of Victoria in Australia.
Andrew, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Thanks for waiting.
I said to HR, hey, maybe is Andrew paying for this call?
Because like everyone else is dialing the old 800 number, and it occurred to me you might actually be picking up the tab for this call yourself.
So we thought we ought to rush you on the air.
Not a problem.
Thank you very much, Mr. Sein.
Good morning.
Or should I say good afternoon?
Oh, what day is it there?
It's tomorrow for you.
Yeah, so it's already Wednesday.
Wednesday.
Yeah, because Rush is in your part of the world.
So if it's already Wednesday there, he should probably be back on the air by now.
Because where he is, it's already...
I was going to say, I'm actually on 24-hour rush alert.
I've employed a network of spies all around the country.
The moment they see Rush, they're going to let me know.
Okay, so you keep an eye out for him.
He could be lurking among the dingoes and wombats.
Keep an eye out for him.
Great to have you with us from a great nation and a good friend to the United States, Andrew.
Thank you very much, and we're proud to be there.
And what was it you wanted to discuss?
Because you've had like a little bit of Obama stimulus and little green-friendly policies from your guy, Kevin Rudd, down in Australia, haven't you?
Of course.
And it's worked wonderfully, as I imagine you're aware of.
I noticed that you had the link to your website.
Well, where it is, you had this fantastic green weatherization, what was it, roof insulation program, which is actually, I think, is actually the same, a similar program to the one that the Obama stimulus has introduced, but they, with typical stimulus inefficiency, they haven't actually spent any of the money on it yet.
So they've only insulated nine homes.
But Down under, you got on with insulating the homes rather quicker than they did up here, didn't they?
Yeah, well, I think it was they announced that, well, it's mid-last year and they rushed it through.
What they didn't take into account in that rushing it through, a lot of people saw, oh, great business opportunity.
So I think it was something like 20 new companies sprung up literally overnight.
They were unchecked, there was no background check or whatever.
And they applied to be subsidized by this scheme.
And so all of a sudden, you have all of these unqualified people insulating homes.
It sounded like a great idea, you know, oh, yeah, we'll weatherize and save energy and whatnot.
Unfortunately, there's something like a few thousand homes which have their roofs electrified.
Not only that, something like over 100 houses have actually caught fire because of these.
Yeah.
I think the last time I checked, 175 houses had burned down from the government insulation program because it's a type of green-friendly foil insulation.
And the idea of it is that basically it turns your ceiling.
They put this stuff in the attic that turns your ceiling live.
It's like the slab that Baron von Frankenstein recharges the monster on.
And they put this in your house.
And I think 175 homes to date are burned down.
But also, actually, it's a serious business.
I think whatever it is now, four or five of the people who install this stuff have been electrocuted and died.
And a lot of the homeowners have been less fatally electrocuted, but have spent weeks in hospital in induced comas.
I mean, it's like a fiasco.
It's a kind of big government fiasco, this green insulation program, isn't it?
Total disaster.
Well, so it's good to know that you're on the cutting edge there.
We hope, I mean, the problem here is that, as Obama says, the country that first goes to like the green economy will rule the world.
We'll be leaders.
And so far in the United States, we haven't followed your lead in having these electrified ceilings that you Australians have ingeniously got the government to install.
Because that's the way, really, I think, to keep the citizenry on their toes.
Every time you happen to touch the ceiling, every time you go up to the attic, you get a jolt of electricity through your chest.
That's really what you are.
That's Big Brother's way of telling you who's boss.
Does wonders for Obama's approval ratings, too.
If they ask you while you're still in shock or you're in the hospital in the induced coma whether you approve of what Obama's doing, you may not be so sharp that you give the right yes or no answer.
Thanks for your call, Andrew, from Melbourne, Australia.
Amazing thing, this.
The government paid, set up a huge amount of money, set up this foil insulation, green-friendly insulation, tremendous savings.
175 houses burned down.
Five people electrocute themselves to death.
This is big government in action.
Big government in action.
And it's coming to you tomorrow.
You know, when people say, well, why haven't all these federalized insulation programs, why haven't the roof insulation here taken off?
It's because the federal government has had to calculate and set the fair market rate for over 3,000 American counters.
And this is the stupidity of it.
If you want to insulate your home, your roof, in no name county in the middle of North Dakota, why don't you just get on with it?
Why does it need a government program in Washington to determine what the rate for insulating your roof in Hicksville County, wherever, is going to cost?
There is no way that it can be made to work and there is no way that it can be afforded.
Mark Stein, InforRush on the EIB network.
More to come.
Mark Stein, InforRush on the EIB network.
As Andrew alerted us to, it's already tomorrow where he is in Australia.
So Rush should be back already because where he is, he should already have done the first show since he got back.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush.
Andrew actually got to a very good point there, that this green jobs thing is a total big bunch of phony baloney.
If you saw those electric ice resurfaces at the Olympics that failed and they had to get in one of the good old-fashioned reliable Zambonis, they had to fly it in from across the Rockies somewhere to do the job that the electric ice resurfaces couldn't do.
If you look at that foil insulation where it turned your ceiling into the bride of Frankenstein's recharge slab, if you look at all those useless wind turbines, abandoned wind turbines in the California desert that are just chopping up our feathered friends and turning them into the old, effectively functioning as a kind of condor cuisine.
If If you look at corn-powered cars that have stupidly made the food supply part of the energy supply and caused food shortages around the third world,
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