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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 anchor man, 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 as we explained yesterday, Rush is at an undisclosed location checking out still viable healthcare systems on the other side of the world.
He he flew 18 hours to get there.
It's fifteen hours back.
And if you can identify the particular jurisdiction that he went to and in which he has found this uh still functioning healthcare system, uh then you could win.
Your very own Rush Limbaugh guest host.
So uh so do let us know that.
Uh breaking news, breaking news.
Ricky Martin comes out.
What, as uh as a Dick Cheney fan?
No, no, no, Ricky Martin.
I'm uh I am a homosexual man.
Well, I'm shocked.
I'm shocked.
Uh in in other news, dog bites man.
Um I mention this only because only because, as you know, if you heard uh yesterday's show, Frank Rich attributed opposition to health care reform to us angry white males homophobia.
Uh 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 health care.
This is good.
This could be a whole new shot in the arm for the anti-health care movement.
Um you know, we didn't we didn't have all these gay pop stars back when people paid for their own damn health care.
It wasn't like this in uh 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.
Um so uh so I think I think this has been a whole shot in the arm to the opposition uh to health care reform from us uh homophobic uh racist misogynist bigots.
This is terrific uh news.
Uh live in La Vida Loca.
That's what it's that's what we're doing in uh Obama's America today.
Live in La Vida Loca, and that's what we'll be doing for the next uh three hours.
1-800 uh 282 uh 2882 uh on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I'd like to say a big shout out uh to any uh Larry King fans listening today.
Any Larry King fans listening today.
Uh Larry King's audience has fallen by fifty-two percent this month.
Not literally fallen.
They didn't, you know, uh go upstairs to uh upstairs to the bathroom during one of the breaks and uh make the mistake of uh not taking the uh the little old chairlift up the stairs and decide, hey, what what the heck this time I'll try and do it on my own like the old days when I first started watching Larry uh and then unfortunately 52% of them fell trying to get back before he completed his exclusive interview with Tina Louise.
Is it Tina Louise uh Larry was interviewing or uh Tina Louise uh or uh I uh or Anne Margaret.
It's usually it's yeah, it's usually a female star with two first names uh from the nineteen sixties.
That's uh don't get me wrong, I love Larry.
Tuna Louise for the full hour!
Exclusive!
Of course it's exclusive.
Uh I love don't get me wrong.
I love Tina Louise, too.
I love Ad Margaret.
I d I love Margaret Louise.
If she's out there and she wants to be on the Larry King show, come on down.
But um uh Larry, uh Larry King's audience has fallen by fifty-two percent.
This is um CNN's ratings now are down somewhere uh between Robert Mugabe's approval rating and the Ebola uh 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 uh in in in the hundred and thirty-seven years he's been anchoring the nine PM slot at CNN.
This was his worst uh ratings quoting uh quarter ever.
The Fox News channel is way up.
My there's a surprise.
But MSNBC and CNN are way down.
Uh 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 prime time 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.
Um 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 prime time 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 uh to uh 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 uh type of sexual practice that obviously we don't we don't want to go into uh in case uh any uh Larry King uh uh uh uh uh fans who've tuned in haven't got their pacemakers set to the right level yet.
So we're not gonna go into what uh what teabagging means.
Uh but Anderson Cooper is the man who put teabagger uh on on the front uh it into the political discourse.
It's now used regularly by senators.
Chuck Schumer disparages the Tea Party movement as teabaggers.
Uh this was is Anderson Cooper's great gift.
And he, by the way, Anderson Cooper is the hot young talent.
You know, Larry Larry is getting up there in in uh in years.
He's almost as uh uh as uh as old as some of the celebrity guests from the sixties he interviews.
And uh Larry's getting up there in years, but uh Anderson Cooper is the hot young thing.
And you know uh how you can tell that he's the hot young thing at CNN is because he's only lost forty-two percent of his viewers.
Forty he's only lost forty-two percent of his viewers, whereas Larry has lost fifty-two percent.
So clearly, clearly, uh Anderson Cooper is the wave of the future.
This forty-two per cent audience losing hot young talent is really what CNN needs to build its audience, or at any rate, uh decimate its audience at a marginally slower rate uh in the future.
Uh Anderson Cooper is clearly the way to go.
So Larry is one.
And don't get me wrong, I love Larry King.
I love not when 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 wither to have a panel of senators.
Like one senator is enough.
There's like twelve percent of your audience gone.
Uh if you put six senators up there in a row, uh th why would be surprised you lose fifty fifty-three per cent of the audience.
The only thing I like about him is when he does the Tina Louise for the full hour.
That's the only thing I like.
Um I don't know, uh I don't I'm not saying I watch CNN a lot.
The only time I watch CNN is uh if I go to C like I do the show here and I rush to um like I'm in New York at Radio City sitting in for rush, and I uh head off to the airport to catch my flight back to uh New Hampshire, and it's the four o'clock flight, so naturally it's delayed till nine o'clock, and you sit there at CNN watching uh six hours of Rush Blitzer at the gate.
This is why people hate CNN, by the way.
They associate it with canceled flights.
Uh 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 it's like a uh a psychological thing, isn't it?
No, uh well, exactly.
If you take if you take the proportion of CNN's audience that is uh actually just sitting at the gate uh 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.
I uh the two things.
It's like a visceral thing.
I can't sit in my home, switch on Wolf Blitzer, because I get sort of I get a kind of itch behind me because it reminds me of unpleasant uh encounters at LAX.
And so this is this is part of the problem for CNN.
But uh you know, because the alternative view uh that C the problem for CNN is that they're presenting a uh a a hopelessly biased view of events in the United States uh in a spectacularly dull format.
That is, of course, too absurd for words.
So I think we 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 uh uh to turn CNN around.
So at any rate, there are there are problems.
There are problems at at CNN and the mainstream media.
Uh and I don't know what uh it's m it's um and it's amazing things.
CNN and N M S N B C are way down, and the Fox News channel is way up.
Now that is uh that is bizarre.
I wonder what could possibly account for that.
Uh anyway, we'll be uh living La Vida Loca on uh on the show uh 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 I don't think we're tracking.
Uh uh I haven't looked at any Rasmussen numbers on it, but I don't think we're tracking uh where Tina Louise fans uh stand on health care reform.
So I'd be interested uh to see how that uh 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 you brought this world into being.
You know, uh the uh the boomers and the Gen Xers uh and the greatest generation, we're live in La Vida Loca, you're gonna be Living La Vida broker.
It's over for you.
Health premiums may rise 17% for young adults buying own insurance.
Uh I don't even know what uh how uh what the term young adults means now, because when Obama's going around the country talking about uh how children can now stay on their parents' health uh insurance, he means children age twenty-six.
So if twenty-six is a child in the United States these days, I don't know what young adult means, uh probably about 43, 44 years old.
Uh but at any r you're looking at a seventeen percent increase uh in the cost of your health care.
Uh consider twenty-four year old Nils Higdon, a self-employed percussionist and part-time teacher in Chicago.
He pays 140 dollars each month for health insurance.
Uh and the law uh calls on Mr. Higton.
It's nice of them to tell him this.
Uh it'd be m it would 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 three hundred to five hundred dollars a year more uh for his health insurance.
Uh that's the point.
That's the only way uh that's that's the only way this thing is uh is gonna work.
You toss more people into the private insurance pool uh the who wouldn't have qualified for insurance before, who are for various reasons uninsurable or high risks.
It means that you guys who are healthy and young and fit, uh you are gonna have to pay higher costs to cover all the the the cost of the government tossing all these people into the pool.
And when uh and when private insurance can't do that, or when private insurers decide that they're gonna get out of the health insurance business entirely, uh that is when uh Obama and the Democrats will step in and say, Well, this shows this is just why we need to s move to a single payer government system.
As they're doing, by the way, uh on the subject of federal loans.
They're basically federalizing uh the college loan system so that when you do dis uh when you're uh one of these people who decides to stay in your parents' health insurance till you're twenty-six and you want to kill eight years uh doing uh women's studies at some college or whatever, uh the 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 health care, we'll talk about some of the other developments uh going on as we live La Vida Loca.
We'll talk we'll talk about I don't know whether uh Larry King has got an exclusive interview lined up with Ricky Martin in which uh uh Ricky Martin uh disc, yeah, Ricky Martin, Ricky Martin for the full hour.
I don't think so.
I don't think so, because uh Ricky Martin, he uh Johnny Mathis for the full hour.
That might be more Larry's scene.
Uh but we we d we we don't know.
Anyway, uh Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
Lots more still to come.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein Infrarush.
I wasn't expecting we are Living La Vida Loca.
Ricky Barton, Ricky Barton has come out uh today.
Uh I think he came out late last night, actually.
Uh there's a surprise.
There's a there is a stunner.
Um but uh my word, that is a bouncy record, is it?
I I feel like coming out myself when I hear that.
What a what a terrific uh what a terrific song.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein Infrarush.
We are Living La Vida Loca in America.
Things that are happening that uh would s have seemed entirely insane even ten years ago, uh we now take uh for granted as a permanent feature of life under rule by the Obama clatura.
Uh I love the way uh Bill Clinton.
This is the difference between Bill Clinton and Obama, by the way.
Bill Clinton said, oh, as soon as Obama gets this health care thing through, his numbers are going to go back up again.
Well, we've now had the uh the first poll uh conducted since uh the health care bill passed, and Obama's approval rating, forty-seven percent approved, fifty percent disapprove.
This is the first time the Obama disapproval rating uh has hit fifty percent.
Uh so there was no bounce.
I don't think he cares, by the way, about the bounce.
He's not like Clinton.
Clinton Clinton was all bounce.
He was bouncy bouncy bouncy, he was bouncier than uh Ricky Martin singing La Vida Loca.
Uh Clinton all he cared about was the bouncy.
All he cared about was getting uh the polls done, getting Dick Morris to do uh another poll, getting somebody to do a focus group.
Do you remember that thing where uh uh he um uh Dick Morris conducted a poll to find out uh where people thought he should go uh on his vacation and it emerged uh that uh all the places that Hill uh that Clinton was spending his vacation, he went to Martha's Vineyard and the Hamptons and he didn't like that.
Uh he loved that.
He liked uh uh hanging out with all the celebrities, Carly Simon and Steven Spielberg.
But Dick Morris did a poll and uh 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 uh with uh 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.
Uh 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 gonna do it to you.
He's gonna stick it to you.
He's gonna shove this health care 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 uh he's got bigger fish to fry.
And what he's interested in is transforming uh 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 health care too far.
Now that's a great insight, by the way, uh's government health care is about government, not about health care.
Uh and that's what all this stuff that Obama is doing has in common.
Uh Obama uh has a view of government as uh in effect the primary source of legitimacy in American life.
And that's where this very interesting uh federalization of college loans comes in.
Uh whatever you think about uh college loans, it it would be better, it would be better, I believe, uh if the private sector does college loans than if the government winds up with a monopoly of college loans.
Uh at the moment, uh I I should declare an interest here.
I uh I've just got back from a little stint at uh Hillsdale College in Michigan that Rush likes to talk about from time to time.
Rush is uh uh friends with uh Larry Arn, who uh runs Hillsdale College and uh likes it uh 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, uh then the federal government or the state government has the right to come in uh onto your campus and check your in compliance with all kinds of things.
Now, a hundred years ago that wasn't a big deal, because it meant you had to be in compliance with uh uh a couple of financial reporting requirements and uh and the fire code.
But these days it means you have to be in compliance with what is essentially ideological matters on uh on uh uh on uh gay equality, for example.
Uh and if you don't want to be if you want to have the freedom to discuss those kinds of issues honestly, uh then taking government money is a huge obstacle to that.
And so uh Hillsdale doesn't want to take any uh government money because they know if you get uh if you get two percent of your income from the government, they control one hundred percent of everything that you do.
They have a veto on everything uh 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, not about uh making it easier for people to go to college.
It is about making it easier uh for the government uh to control what uh is taught in those colleges.
In other words it's a method of ideological enforcement.
Uh and this is what's going on now in all kinds of small little uh unobtrusive ways in every area of uh 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-term care.
distance trip to s to check out to check out still functioning healthcare systems on the other on the other side of the planet let us go to Peggy in Noblesville Indiana.
Peggy you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you.
Um 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 uh advertisement on a TV.
That's all they have.
Right what's the work out advertisement on the TV?
Oh you could get a Brazilian butt.
You could do Zumba.
What wait wait a minute what do you mean you could get a Brazilian butt?
We're outsourcing butts to Brazil.
What what's the what's what's the deal with that?
Is that one of the jobs Americans won't do now?
What will you mean they're a 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 LA Fitness to let 'em know we want Fox News.
So LA Fitness is like a nationwide chain of uh they're not they're not a sponsor of this show are they uh HR before we're not but no uh before we that's right.
Not after we mock they won't they certainly won't be after we mock their Brazilian butts from coast to coast.
So we're gonna kick their Brazilian butt.
So they've they've um they have uh dropped Fox and they're now making you work out to Wolf Blitzer uh for hours on end.
How's that how's that feel?
Horrible.
I just turn on my iPod and shut my eyes.
Really?
So you're not enjoying working out to uh uh 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 five AM.
So we get in there at five AM or six AM in the morning.
Oh okay so you're like working out to their early morning anchors.
Yeah.
Uh oh dear this is this is uh 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 uh federally federally regulated health clubs now are only obliged to carry Obamacare uh approving media.
Is it something to do with that do you think we'd like we 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 I think I'll I think I'll okay well if you're a a business manager at a medical practice you need to be working out because a couple of years time you're gonna be up in the hills foraging for berries.
So you want to make sure you're fit and uh and and and like and likely to increase your chances of being able to live out in the wilds because it's not 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 th we'll do our best.
LA fitness uh members uh coast to coast uh contact LA Fitness and say you do not want you you're uh maybe agnostic on the question of the Brazilian butt but you definitely do not want to work out uh to uh to Wolf Blitzer.
Thank you thank you for call Peggy great to have you with us.
Hey let's go to Nita in Dallas.
Uh Nita you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you.
Uh you know I just really have a concern about the government take over of the student loan program, especially with um the the references to maybe changing our high school requirements so that certain people can graduate early or or complete high school with less than twelve years.
Right.
And uh with the idea that some people are not suited for college.
And you know, 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 gonna give more student loans for that.
I don't think uh I don't think that is going to be an issue because I would uh wager that when you look at the coming doctor shortage, what that is gonna mean is that there's going to be a massive importation of doctors uh from from overseas.
Because you can never there are never enough people once you have a government health care system, you can never uh train up enough people who want to go want to become doctors anyway.
If you go to all the uh medical schools in the United Kingdom, for example, uh they're f they're full of people from uh Pakistan and Botswana and Iraq, uh and you can't you can you can never once it's a government health care system, nobody you can never train enough uh local doctors from from within your uh own high school population.
But but you're but you're right that one the minute it they get a monopoly on it, then they can uh effectively direct you into uh whatever courses they want you to do.
So you un 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 uh uh shrivels your horizons and directs your focus down whatever particular alley they think is in the in the best interest of whatever they got planned for you.
Exactly.
So that we're all comrades and you have um you know maybe identification early on in the education system because the government already has so much to say about that now.
Right.
Of what your potential to help the greater good of the country.
Right.
Rather than you deciding this is what I love to do and this is what I want to do with my life.
Well, and and by and by the way, this idea that everybody should go to college.
If everybody does go to college, uh i if everybody did go to college, that would just give uh the American education system yet another excuse to defer teaching people any anything later and later.
I mean, and basically in high school they teach what they should be teaching in middle school.
Uh you say you say, which is true, that they're now proposing to have early graduation from high school because people get people don't finish high school.
And so instead of saying, well, that's because they're bored and uh or whatever, and maybe we ought to teach them more, and maybe we ought to figure out some way to uh hold their attention till twelfth grade, they say, Oh, what the what the hell does it matter?
Let's just give them the certificate in the tenth grade or the ninth grade, and it doesn't really matter.
And so if you have if you just say uh well everybody, the entire population now can go to college till they're 24, 25, 26.
All that's gonna all that's gonna wind up from that is that uh eventually we'll be teaching in college what we should be teaching in middle school.
This endless expansion of education uh with uh uh w but but but getting less and less into it is actually uh extremely bad for it's it's bad for the demograph it's bad for economically, it's bad demographically, it's bad on a whole ton of things.
Thank you for your call, uh Nita.
Great uh great to talk to you.
Th this is by the way, quite an important point.
Um if you look at the way uh, for example uh old traditional societies used to work.
You were basically a child until you were about fourteen or fifteen, and then you were an adult, and then you died.
And those were basically the two stages of life.
You were a child until you were fourteen or fifteen, then you were an adult, then you died.
That was it.
Now we've got a situation where uh as uh as the president has said, you're a child until you're twenty-six.
At twenty-six, uh the age of twenty-six, you're still eligible to be on your on your parents' uh health care uh insurance because you're you're still a child.
We we've created this whole new stage of adolescence, uh, which now can extend uh officially under the Obama administration till the age of twenty-six, but in some European countries uh it extends uh into the early thirties.
There was a guy in uh somewhere in Italy uh whose daughter had been working on her thesis about the holy grail for eight years.
She was thirty-two, and he figured at thirty-two, maybe you either ought to uh uh finish your thesis or abandon it and get a job and get the hell out of there.
Uh so she took him to court and the court argued that he had to go on paying her 500 euros a month.
Uh 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.
Uh 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 uh of adolescence, which now ends, according to President Obama, on your twenty-seventh birthday.
When does it start?
Well, you know, uh if you're uh if you're an eleven-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 uh your parents about that.
If you're like an eleven-year-old and you want to have an abortion, uh that you're a fully grown, matured person uh and you 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 eleven-year-old and you get pregnant, you're a ten-year-old and you get pregnant, you're uh 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 but the but the mental ability, the ability to take responsibility for your own life on any issues other than sex, uh doesn't begin until your twenty-seventh birthday.
For everything else, uh when it when it comes to having an abortion, you can uh you can make your fully competent to make your own decision at eleven.
When it comes for any other health care issues, you should be on your parents' health insurance uh till your twenty-seventh birthday.
This is crazy.
It's uh it's economically deformed, but it's also bad for the country uh and for society in general in a far more fundamental way.
Mark Stein and Farush, lots more to come.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network.
Let's go to uh let's go to Andrew in uh Melbourne, Melbourne.
You're probably wondering what state that's in.
It's in the great state of Victoria in Australia.
Andrew, you're uh you're you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Uh thanks for waiting.
I said to HR, hey, maybe uh is is uh is Andrew paying for this call?
Because like everyone else is dialing the old uh eight hundred number, and occurred to me you might actually be uh 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. Soline.
Good morning.
Or should I say good afternoon?
Oh, what what what day is it there?
Uh it's tomorrow for you.
Yeah, so it's already Wednesday.
Wednesday.
Yeah, because Rush is in your part of the world.
So uh so he should so if it's already Wednesday there, he should probably be back on the air by now.
Uh because where he is, it's already I was gonna say I'm actually on twenty-four-hour rush alert.
Uh I I've employed a network of spies all around the country.
Uh the moment they see Rush, they're gonna let me know.
Okay, so you keep an eye out for him.
He could be lurking among the dingos and wombats.
Uh keep an eye out for that out for him.
Hey, great great to uh great to have you with us uh from uh from a great nation and a good friend uh to the United States, Andrew.
Thank you very much.
Uh and we're proud to be there.
And uh and what and what was it you wanted to dis discuss?
Because you've had like a little bit of Obama stimulus and uh little green-friendly policies from uh your guy Kevin Rudd down in Australia, haven't you?
Oh of course.
Uh a and it's worked wonderfully as uh uh I I imagine y you're aware of.
Uh uh noticed that you had the link from to your website.
Well, uh the the uh where it is uh you you had this fantastic green weatherization uh what was it roof insulation program, which is actually uh I think is actually the same a similar program to the one that the Obama stimulus has introduced.
But they with a typical uh stimulus inefficiency, they haven't actually spent any of the money uh on it yet.
So they've only uh st uh they've only insulated nine homes.
But you you you went down under you got on with insulating the homes rather quicker than they did uh uh up here, didn't they?
Yeah, well I think it was uh they announced it was a thing of mid mid last year and uh they rushed it through.
Um 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 twenty new companies sprung up literally overnight.
Yeah, they were un un that were unchecked, un Yeah, there was no background check or whatever.
And they applied uh to you know, to be subsidized by this scheme.
And um so all of a sudden you have all of these unqualified people insulating homes.
Um it sounded like a great idea, you know, oh yeah, we'll weatherise and oh save energy and whatnot.
Unfortunately, there's something like a few thousand homes which have their roofs electrified, and not only that, something like over a hundred houses have actually caught fire because of these um, yeah.
Uh I think the last time I checked, a hundred and seventy-five uh houses had burned down from the government insulation program.
Because it's a it's a type of green friendly foil insulation.
Uh and the idea of it is it basically it turns your uh turns your ceiling.
They put this stuff in the attic that turns your ceiling live.
It's like a uh it's like the the slab that uh that Baron von Frankenstein recharges the monster on, and they put this in your house and uh I think a hundred and seventy-five homes today to burn down, but also actually it's a serious business.
Um uh I I think whatever it is now, four or five of the uh the people who install this stuff were have been electrocuted and died, and um uh and uh and a lot of the homeowners have been less fatally electrocuted, but have spent uh uh uh uh weeks in hospital in induced comas.
I mean it's like a fiasca.
It's a kind of big government fiasco, this uh green insulation program, isn't it?
Total disaster.
Well, that's uh so it's good to know that you're on the cutting edge there.
Uh i i i 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 will be leaders.
And so far in the United States, we haven't followed your lead in having these uh electrified uh ceilings that you Australians have ingeniously got the government to install.
Uh because that's the way really I think to keep uh keep the citizenry on their toes.
You know, every every time uh every time you happen to touch the ceiling, you get a every time you go up to the attic, you get a jolt of electricity through your chest.
That's really what you that's really what you want.
That's big brother's way of telling telling you who's boss.
Does wonders for Obama's approval ratings too.
You know, if they if they ask you while you're still in shock or you're in the hospital in the induced coma uh 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 uh uh call, Andrew from Melbourne, Australia.
Amazing thing this uh a green gov the government paid set up huge amount of money, set up this g foil insulation, green friendly insulation, tremendous savings, a hundred and seventy-five houses burned down, five people electrocute themselves to death.
This is big government in action.
Big big government in action, and it's and it's coming to you tomorrow.
You know when people say, well, what why haven't all these federalized insulation programs uh uh uh uh b why uh why haven't the roof insulation here uh taken off?
It's because the federal government has had to calculate and set the fair market rate for over three thousand American counties.
And this is the stupidity of it.
Uh if you want to uh uh insulate your home, your roof in no name county uh in the middle of North Dakota, why don't you just get on with it?
Why does it need a government program in Washington uh to determine what the rate for insulating your roof in Hicksville County wherever uh is gonna cost.
There is no way that it can be made to work and there is no way that it can be afforded.
Mark Stein, InfoRush on the EIB network, Mordicum.
Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network, as uh Andrew alerted us uh too, it's already tomorrow where he is in Australia, uh so Rush uh should be back uh already because where he is, he should already have done the first show since he got back.
Mark Stein uh InfoRush, Andrew actually got to a very good uh 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 Zambonies, they had to uh fly it in from across the Rockies somewhere uh to do the job that the electric ice resurfaces couldn't do.
Uh If you look at that foil insulation uh where it turned the ceiling into the bride of uh Frankenstein's recharge slab, if you look at all those useless wind turbines, abandoned wind turbines in the California desert, uh that uh just uh uh chopping up the our feathered friends and uh turning them into the old uh effectively functioning as a kind of Condor cuisinar.
Um if you look at uh corn-powered cars that have that have stupidly made the food supply part of the energy supply and caused food shortages uh around the uh third world, uh green jobs is a massive boondoggle that does wonders for Al Gore,
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