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April 23, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 23, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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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 sitting in.
Not just undocumented, but as I said just before the break, I'm proud to be in non-compliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance.
I don't even know what that is, and I don't even know what that means, but I gather I'm giving a speech in somewhere in New York, I think in June in Ulster County.
So with a bit of luck, the New York State Troopers may bust in and take me down for being in non-compliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance, and I'll be hauled off to share a jail cell with whatever gang of New York State legislators has been convicted for corruption that week.
I'd be interested to know, by the way, whether Elliot Spitzer's hooker was in compliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance.
Was she in compliance?
I'm just throwing that out.
You know, I believe in equality before the law, so I'm just interested to know if you happen to work for the New York State Bureau of Compliance.
And do let me know whether Elliot Spitzer's $300 an hour hooker is in compliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance.
Rush is away today, but he will be here.
He will be back on Monday.
And in the meantime, he's here in print because he has a terrific piece in the Wall Street Journal today called Liberals and the Violence Card.
Quote, the latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence.
That takes me back 15 years ago to the time President Bill Clinton accused, quote, loud and angry voices on the airwaves, i.e. Rush, of having incited Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Now, it was nonsense then, and as Rush says in his piece, quote, few presidents have sunk so low as Mr. Clinton did with his accusations about Oklahoma City.
It's not difficult to figure out what Timothy McVeigh was steamed about.
He committed his act in Oklahoma City two years to the day after the federal assault on the Waco compound.
That's what was bugging him, Waco.
So he killed a whole bunch of people.
He was also soured on America after he'd served in the First Gulf War.
In fact, suppose, you know, for a notorious right-wing hater, he's actually remarkably Islamophile.
But as Rush points out, this was discreditable enough at the time in the wake of an actual act of mass murder for Bill Clinton to do something as contemptible as this.
I mean, but at the time, it had a certain sort of brilliant opportunism to it, no matter how contemptible.
To revive it 15 years later in an attempt to slur peaceful people exercising their right in a free society to take issue with their rulers is even more disgusting.
There's been no violence.
This is one of the most peaceful mass movements ever seen.
In fact, one of the things you notice, if you compare it to, say, you know, the WTO crowd, the fellows who go to the World Trade Organization meetings, to the G8 summits, to the World Bank summits, and smash and trash whichever downtown happens to be hosting the summit, they can't get anywhere near the rulers.
We have such big government now that they are entirely insulated from the mob rampaging through the streets.
It's just the guy who happens to have the Starbucks franchise or the McDonald's franchise who gets his window smashed in.
And then these thugs just go rampaging back and forth through the streets.
Happened all through the years leading up to September 11th.
I happened to see it in Quebec City at the summit of the Americas.
I remember the heady whiff of tear gas in my eyes as the anti-globalization thugs rampage through the streets.
That is actual violence.
And if you don't take that violence seriously, you should certainly take it seriously as a litter problem.
Because after those guys, the anti-globalization, the anti-consumerization guys, for people who are opposed to consumerization, they seem to get through an awful lot of junk food because the streets are full of trash by the time they move on.
The Tea Party, the Tea Party crowd, are so well-behaved, they pick up their litter.
They pick up their litter before the rally ends and take it home with them.
When they had their big thing on the mall in Washington, the mall looked cleaner, having been cleaned by the Tea Party guys, than if it had just been left to the federal employees to clean it up.
So this is a grotesque slur.
And Rush is quite right to call them on it.
The idea, the idea that law-abiding American citizens disagreeing with their government, disagreeing with a government putting through transformative and unaffordable programs that it was never explicitly elected on, the idea that this is, there's somehow you're just one degree of separation from Timothy McVeigh.
You know, if you meet, ooh, and all and all the brain-dead media, the state-run media, they repeat this.
They report Bill Clinton's thing.
You know, and he's got that thing now, Clinton, where he wears the little eyeglasses at the end of his nose to make him look scholarly.
Either that or he's just trying to spot, you know, which intern it is crawling towards him on the carpet.
But he's got these like little scholarly eyeglasses he has perched down on the end of the nose to make it seem as if this is he is a great statesman who has thought about this issue a lot.
He's not.
He's just repeating a 15-year-old slur.
And the one thing you could say about the 15-year-old slur back in 1995 was there had actually been an act of violence.
There's been no violence this time.
And Rush is right to call these people on it.
You know, the Democrats are masters of the art of the politics of personal destruction.
And they're brilliant at it.
You know, Bush Hitler, General Betraeus, Sarah Palin isn't really the mother of her child.
She's really the grandmother.
She's covering up for it.
There's eminent columnists who have appointed themselves chief obstetrician general of the United States of America and obsessed with Sarah Palin's birth canal.
They can do that.
They can do that to anybody.
Whether even Bill Clinton is capable of demonizing 50% of the American people, exercising not just their democratic right, but their duty as self-reliant citizens to question what government is doing when you have a transformative radical government introducing one unaffordable, unprecedented, transformative 2,000-page bill after another.
And actually, you know, when a lot of other countries in the world would benefit from having something like a Tea Party movement, it's a tragedy.
They had a Tea Party movement, they had a Tea Party rally up in Canada the other day, a kind of prototype one, and I think that's a good sign.
I wish they had Tea Party rallies in the United Kingdom.
I wish they had Tea Parties in France, in Germany, in Italy.
These countries would be healthier if they had an engaged citizenry who don't look on the government as their rulers, quote, from whom you're not allowed to dissent.
I mean, this is crazy talk.
The idea that somehow, if you happen to say, oh, I'm, you know, I'm becoming very concerned about increased levels of federal spending, that you're just a hair trigger away from lighting up the fertilizer in the back of your truck and blowing the whole place to kingdom come.
This is something that Bill Clinton should be ashamed, even by his own standards of shamelessness, of being reduced to.
This pathetic shill for Barack Obama trudging around the country now, reviving this decade and a half old slur.
And by the way, in the meantime, in the meantime, what do we see?
Do you know this show, South Park?
I've got lousy TV reception in my part of New Hampshire, so I can't see it.
But it's a big show on Comedy Central, and they're rude about everybody, basically.
And that's like the American way.
They're equal opportunity guys.
They're rude about Christians.
They're rude about Jews.
And they happen to mention Mohammed, a big guy in the Muslim scene the other day.
And when the show aired on Wednesday night, Comedy Central cut all references to Mohammed because of explicit threats of violence by...
I think we need to give.
Let me find see if I can find the guy's name, because I think he needs to take a bow for it.
Oh yeah, here we go, Abu Tala Al-Amriki.
He put up a video on the internet explaining why this South Park episode, with a rather tame Mohammed joke, was going to lead to the deaths of the show's creators.
And, just to make the point more explicit, he showed a picture of Theo Van Gogh, the Dutch film director, who was killed by a guy called Mohammed by coincidence, and Mr. Al-Amriki then explained that he wasn't actually inciting personally inciting the murder of the creators of South PARK.
He said it wasn't really a threat, but just the likely outcome.
He said he was quote, raising awareness.
You know, it's like a sort of Earth Day thing, you know, where people raise awareness on Earth Day.
So in the face of this explicit threat of violence, what did Comedy Central do?
They folded like a cheap beta intent and they censored South Park.
They cut all the references to Mohammed and they even cut the little speech at the end where one of the characters says about how important it is to stand up to intimidation.
So Comedy Central was so intimidated, they cut the speech about how necessary it is to stand up to intimidation.
This is the liberal way folks.
They're great cardboard warriors at fighting phantom enemies.
So if there's a little old 78-year-old widow who's a bit worried about some of section 47, clause 3 on page 1862 of the healthcare bill, she's Timothy McVeigh.
She's going to blow at any minute.
Keep away from her.
Don't look her in the eye.
She could be lighting her Semtex belt.
But when they've got actual enemies, actual enemies explicit, explicitly threatening to kill them, then these guys, these big, brave guys who are happy to call out you because you happen to go along to a rowdy town hall meeting with your congressman, they're happy to call you a terrorist.
But faced with people explicitly threatening to kill them, they just fold, they cave in, they concede everything.
This is really the liberal world in a nutshell.
You know, the Iranian nuclear program isn't the threat.
You guys concerned about federal spending are the real threat.
The fellow who takes Comedy Central, the so-called hip-edgy channel, that all the young Americans under 57 or whatever age you have to be to get kicked off your parents' health insurance program now, all the young hip Americans under 57 get their news from Comedy Central.
Jon Stewart, he's the big guy.
Comedy Central, that's where people find out things.
You don't find out anything from them because when it's anything controversial and there's a real threat of violence, they cave in, they concede, they surrender.
But at the same time, liberals are always happy to take on phantom enemies, which is what Bill Clinton did in the 90s, actually.
Back when he was demonizing talk radio, Osama bin Laden and the gang had the run of the planet, except for the one time when the day after his grand jury testimony or whatever it was, when he fired a couple of million-dollar cruise missiles into that empty aspen factory in Sudan.
Other than that, real enemies had the run of the planet while he demonized Rush.
This is the liberal worldview.
They're terrific at fighting phantoms while letting real enemies have the run of the planet.
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Let us go to Miami and talk to Jose.
Is that right, Jose?
It's not Josie and the pussycats like in Archie and Riverdale that we were talking about earlier with their exciting news.
Yeah, actually, I wouldn't know much about Josie and the Pussycats, but you can just call me Jose.
Jose.
Or call me Ted, whatever you like.
Oh, no, no.
Jose is good.
Have you got an accent on the E?
We don't have.
I really think this is we've got an insufficiently multicultural call screen up here because we don't have proper accents on half these names.
Great to have you with us, Jose.
Thank you, Mark.
I appreciate it.
Here's a question that's been in the back of my head.
Considering that the trash heap of history is littered with the corpses of socialist and Marxist government societies, you know, call it what you will, what is it that the left thinks is different today that was not working back then?
How is it that they're going to make it work this time?
Well, that's a very good point.
I mean, what is so pathetic about this administration is that everything has been tried before.
This idea that there is any new kind of hope or any kind of change in this, by change, by change, what Obama means is all the stuff that a lot of European countries found out the hard way in the 1970s failed.
This is like one of those straight-to-video movie, horror movie sequels where the zombie returns to life.
People in the 1970s in European countries and in Britain in particular, where Mrs. Thatcher worked hard to kill the zombie of massive destructive statism that ends all kind of economic energy in a society.
And then 30 years later, Barack Obama decides to dig up the zombie and let him stagger around again in his polyester bell bottoms, terrorizing the neighborhood, except on a bigger scale than anybody's ever attempted.
What is fascinating to me is to see, for example, now we're talking about introducing the VAT.
You know this thing, Jose?
The VAT?
Let me tell you, with the expiring Bush tax cuts, combined with crap and tax and they impose the VAT with the increases in regular income taxes, I mean, where does it end?
Yeah, exactly.
Where does it end?
Because there's never enough money.
And what is interesting is if you look at the European countries introduced the value-added tax in the late 1960s, if you look at the years before that, they were broadly competitive on an economic level with the United States, up until they all began introducing the VAT in the late 1960s.
Since then, they have not been competitive in an economic sense with the United States.
So what are we going to do now?
We're going to introduce this soul-sucking, hidden national sales tax applied at every part of the process, turning everybody at every stage in the manufacturing of a product into little micro and mini tax collectors for the government.
And what we are going to be doing is further disincentivizing economic energy.
All this stuff isn't hard.
Every time you think Barack Obama's had a terrific new idea, all you need to do is look east.
It's all been tried before, either in a relatively mild view, mild way in Western Europe, or as you go further, in an even more insane way.
The difference is nobody's ever tried it with a continental nation of 300 million people before.
I used to think that healthcare, for example, government healthcare, we were just heading for a disaster on the scale of Britain's National Health Service or the Canadian system.
But it's going to be way worse than that because Britain has 60 million people and its National Health Service is the third biggest employer on the planet after the Chinese Army and Indian National Railways.
So now, you imagine the scale of disaster when you when that's what happens when you do it for 60 million people on a small island.
If you do it for 350 million people from Maine to Hawaii, you're looking at an entirely different scale of disaster.
But consider, how is it that these leftists cannot rationalize and think critically about what's happening in this country?
I mean, does ideology drive these people so much that reality just, I mean, are they, I mean, they have rationalized it, Jose.
What all these problems have in common is government power.
If you look at whatever, the first sentence of that stupid story I read out about the SEC sitting around watching porn movies all day, the regulators, these that we need so much, sitting around watching porn movies all day long, the word government appears three times in the first two-sentence paragraph.
It's all about government.
It's all about creating a government class.
How is Barack Obama doing any good, real good for the country as far as helping us move forward?
I mean, what are these, don't people stop and think critically that, you know, this is unsustainable, this growth of government and the support of the masses.
Frankly, it's the ignorance of the masses that got us in this position in the first place, combined with the so-called lame street media that, you know, Bush was not perfect.
He was not, but he's a human being, but he did try to do the best he could for his country.
But they crucified the man.
Then they anointed Obama as the end-all-be-all.
Well, you are it, you know?
Well, you know, the worst one, the worst ones, though, Jose.
I mean, some people knew he was like he had a hardcore transformative agenda, and they supported him on that basis.
The really pathetic ones, and I hate to keep beating up on these guys every time.
So all the smart guys on our side who told us, oh, don't worry about things.
He's really just a post-partisan centrist.
There's nothing to worry about.
Where's the post-partisan centrist?
He spent, the Democrat Congress spent over $9 trillion.
That's the total tag on their legislation in the last 12 months.
There's nothing post-partisan, bipartisan, moderate, or centrist about any of that.
Markstein for Rush.
Lots more still to come.
Yes, Rush will be in on Monday, back on Monday.
And in the meantime, this is Mark Stein sitting in.
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This was interesting, I thought.
Steve Wynn in the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Steve Wynn is announcing, he's like the big guy in Vegas.
He owns all the fancy resorts there.
He's been in the business for decades now, going back to, used to fly around on Frank Sinatra's jet all the time and accompany him to doing shows in Steve Wynn's casinos.
He's now announcing that might move his company's corporate headquarters from Las Vegas to Macau.
He's saying that he's been very critical of President Obama and he's saying that essentially as we he doesn't want to waste time given the hostile business climate in the United States and it would make more sense for him to move his operations to Macau, which is off the coast of China, the former Portuguese colony.
That's great, isn't it?
Stuff under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China is a now more economically favorable business environment than the United States with its massively expanded regulation involving SEC regulators sitting around watching hardcore pornography all day.
By the way, I mean, on balance, if I have to choose, I prefer hardcore pornography to hardcore regulation.
So if it's true that actually letting them watch hardcore pornography all day cuts down on their regulation, I think we should pipe hardcore pornography into every federal government office, plus the New York State Bureau of Compliance.
I'd far rather the New York State Bureau of Compliance was watching hardcore pornography all day long than pestering me for being in non-compliance with whatever it is I'm in non-compliance with.
But by the way, there is good news.
Did you see this thing the other day?
The Obama administration said that General Motors had repaid some of its bailout money.
This is very interesting because you remember Obama basically took over General Motors.
They made them Obama Motors, Government Motors.
But they're now saying, oh, don't worry about that.
We're repaying the money that the Obama administration gave us.
So you're repaying it with your money from your private checking account, your private savings account, from your investors, from money earned in the private sector and that you have acquired as the corporation and repaid to taxpayers.
Is that what you said?
Well, it turns out it's not quite like that.
They've repaid the money Obama gave them directly with money from the TARP program, the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
So if you can follow this, the government, General Motors received money from the government that it's now repaid with money from the government.
You know, people are very critical of Obama economics, and they say, you know, this stuff doesn't add up.
We now see how it works.
If you get a massive government loan, say Barack Obama lends you a trillion dollars for your company.
Well, that's a lot of money and he might want it back sometime.
And when he does want it back, say, oh, okay, I'll just borrow another trillion dollars from the government and repay the first trillion dollars I gave you.
So General Motors has taken money from TARP to repay the money it took from the government motors bailout.
You see that?
Everything's going to, don't you look, this may sound complicated to you, but that's because you're not a sophisticated, intelligent economist like Barack Obama and his team.
Don't worry your pretty little head about it.
Everything will all make sense.
The government is borrowing, as Jonah Goldberg put it at National Review, the government's not borrowing money from Peter to pay Paul.
It's borrowing money from Peter to pay Peter.
What could possibly be wrong with that?
Let us go to Laureen in Old Forge, Pennsylvania.
Is it Laureen or Laureen?
Laureen or Laureen?
Laureen.
Laureen.
Laureen, great to have you with us.
HR, where does Laureen come on Russia's list of all-time favorite names?
Oh, number 12.
No, it can't be number 12.
Laurene is a much better name like that.
We're going to put you in at number four with a bullet, Laureen.
You're climbing up the hit parade of favorite names.
You're live on the Rush Limbusho.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you so much, and thank you for all you do.
I'm so excited to be on your show.
I've tried to call for about a year now.
Eventually you make it.
And I would imagine that over the course of the last year, there's far more things that have made you steam than you'd like to talk about on the show because it's been one hell of a year.
Okay, what's bugging you today, Lorraine?
Oh, my goodness, where do I start?
Well, first of all, I am a Scranton Tea Party organizer, so.
Oh, you mean you're a terrorist?
I am.
You're just like, well, I tell you something.
I'm glad we're several states apart because I don't want to be anywhere near you when you light up the suicide bomber belt.
Bill Clinton has said that you're kind of angry, hateful, racist, homophobic, seditious.
Joe Klein called you seditious.
There's nothing more seditious, by the way, than quoting the Constitution and Thomas Jefferson.
It doesn't get any more seditious than that.
I guess that's why Joe Biden decided to come to our airport today.
Oh, really?
What's he doing in Pennsylvania then?
He's trying to get Specter elected.
Really?
You know, nothing is going to get Arlen Specter elected.
If Arlen Specter even did what this guy in this Democratic primary in Philadelphia did, and he announced he was bisexual, even that wouldn't be enough to get Arlen Spector elected.
I know.
Well, I even got a robot call, and I'm a Republican, so they mustn't have been able to get too many Democrats to show up.
Yeah, but so was he until 20 minutes ago.
He's got a Rolodex full of Republican numbers.
Getting Republicans to work for Arlen Spector worked for him for whatever it was, four decades.
You can't blame the guy for trying it one last time.
Hey, hey, who do you bet on for that set of race?
You think Pat Toomey's going to do it?
I hope so.
I hope so.
We're trying to help him out, so I hope so.
He's a good man, Pat Toomey.
I've met him a couple of times, and he's a solid guy, and certainly anyone is better than Arlen Spector, who gave the most stupid response in the Clinton impeachment trial when what did he say?
He used the Scottish system and said not proven.
Is that right?
I think it was his verdict.
But the case against Arlen Spector has been more comprehensively proven than anything.
So he's done his toast, and we look forward to Senator Toomey in November.
Anything else as you've been waiting so long, Lorraine?
Yes.
I read both health care and cap and trade bills.
I'm a nurse.
You read both those bills?
Actually, I read both of the health care bills.
I didn't get to the one that was signed yet, but I read the cap and trade bill as well.
Wow, you're way ahead.
No congressman or senate-type guys have done that kind of thing.
And who was it representing?
Was it Representative Conyers who said there'd be no point to me reading it because I wouldn't understand what was in it anyway?
That's the problem that you're sitting there in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, and it's guys like Codyers who are running everything back in Washington.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
By the way, how do they turn out?
Is there a happy ending when you get to page 1728 of those things?
Or is it basically just gets worse the longer you read?
It's worse the longer you read.
But I picked out three items that I felt would affect Northeast Pennsylvania the most.
And I'm trying to educate people on those sections.
And those are the Certified Stoves Program.
Right.
And that is regarding pellet stoves and wood-burning stoves, that they must be destroyed and recycled to the maximum extent feasible.
Great.
They cannot be sold or returned to active service.
That's actually in the bill.
Right.
Do you know how many, I guess it's the same in your part of the world.
Do you know how many people are wood stoves here in New Hampshire?
This is crazy talk.
So we now have a federally regulated wood stove regime.
They're afraid of our wood-burning and pellet-burning stoves.
Okay, don't take along any of those wood-burning stoves with you to a tea party rally.
Otherwise, they really will think you're Timothy McVeigh.
That was your first one.
What was the second point?
The second section is tree planting programs.
They require tree recipients to sign agreements committing to voluntary stewardship and care of provided trees, monitor and report on the survival, growth, overall health, and estimated energy savings of provided trees up until the end of their establishment period, which shall be no less than five years.
And this is a signed contract you have to have.
So for five years, your tree is a ward of the United States government.
Well, I was joking.
I was joking earlier about take your daughter to work day, and I said, you know, Earth Day is Take Your Tree to Work Day.
But it is.
Basically, your tree is, for the purposes of regulation, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the United States government.
That's terrific.
So we've got a federal, okay, we've got a federal wood stove regime, and we've got a federal tree regime.
And what's the third one?
The third one is home inspections and the sale of your home.
They have three inspectors that they're going to hire.
That's where the jobs come in for each city, village, or town that are going to come around to the neighborhoods and inspect your homes.
And they're going to be called green inspections.
And this is giving federal government authority to inspect their homes for compliance with the green initiatives from indoor outdoor lighting to appliances and outlets.
Oh, indoor lighting.
So they can come in and examine your sconce in your bathroom to their heart's content.
Listen, that's not even funny because they even have it listed right down to the light bulbs in your artwork.
Like if you have a piece of artwork on your lawn and it has a light bulb in it.
Yeah.
That's a serious thing.
We're not talking about something peripheral like the Iranian nuclear program.
Your picture light, you've got some painting.
You know, a big-time terrorist tea party lady like you, Lorene, would have a picture of some treasonous figure like Thomas Jefferson on the wall with a little picture light above it.
That's exactly the sort of thing we need government inspectors to take care of.
I know, it's outrageous.
And for guys like me, I mean, I've got a 200-year-old dump.
The idea that I now can't sell it without having somebody come in and inspect HR would say, My Home is a Historical Monument.
No, it's not.
It's a compound.
When the Feds arrive to take me out, it won't be described as a nice 200-year-old scenic farmhouse.
It will be described as a compound.
I'm in the compound.
Yeah, you're in the compound.
You know, I have an older home than I live in, and, you know, they're talking about furnaces, dishwashers, appliances.
Everything has to be changed out before you.
Yeah, they'll penalize you for having a top-loading washer instead of a front-loading washer, which is apparently more environmentally friendly for some reason because you have to bend down so you don't like to load it up and run it quite as often or whatever.
But this is, but you made the right point here, Lorene, that the reason we have all this stuff is not because of the peripheral benefit from regulating your picture lights.
It's giving the government the right to regulate everything in your household.
As you've described this, Bill, basically your home, you live in your home, how you live, your lifestyle exists at the discretion of the federal government.
That's why when you have big government, you have shrinking freedom.
The bigger government gets, the more liberty shrivels.
And you've just mentioned three small things.
They're not things that nobody is going to be having thousands of people demonstrating in the street over wood stove regulation.
But it's all this micro-regulating of every aspect of your life.
It's the soft despotism, Tocqueville's phrase.
It's the soft despotism that Tocqueville warned of 200 years ago and which big government now has the technology to enforce.
Thank you.
Thank you for your call, Lorene.
It was great to talk to you.
Don't leave it another year till you call again because you're number four on the favorite ladies' names list.
So do get back to us.
Mark Stein, in for rush.
Got to go and have an EIB profit center outing, but we will be back with more of your calls shortly.
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Let's go to Cliff in Austin, Texas.
Cliff, you're live on the Rush Slimbo show.
Hey, Mark, happy Friday from the land of the Longhorns.
Yeah, great.
Have you got live longhorns wandering through the streets of Austin?
Because you're like in the little big government quarter of Texas.
You could do with a few less government employees and a few more Longhorns in the streets.
Exactly.
We're turning into a little Washington here, it seems like.
Anyway, my thoughts, Mark, were actually I want to get your thoughts on something.
We've all heard Obama and all his cronies, Valerie Jarrett, Axel Rodd, and so on and so forth, here lady all claiming that they're all about prosperity and the capitalism and free market and just on and on and on.
You know what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
And it seems real strange to me that people like Paul Ryan and others in his place aren't streaming from the rooftops this fact.
And that is, the video that I saw on Glenn Beck with Ron Bloom, the guy that's in charge of reinvigorating our economy for Obama, I'm sure he was appointed by Obama.
He made the statement that the free market and capitalism is nonsense.
That's right.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, Mark.
And anyway, I'm going to hang up and I wanted to get your thoughts on that.
No, Cliff, that's a very good point.
Barack Obama is who he is.
He hasn't ever made a payroll.
He hasn't ever run anything.
I think the last thing he even nominally ran was the Harvard Law Review, and apparently he was just happy to be a benign figurehead.
And he actually wasn't running that in any executive sense.
And he chose instead to spend his entire adult life with people who don't create wealth or run wealth anyway, in any sense either.
What is a community organizer, for example?
We're not talking about people who, like the community organizers in my little town in New Hampshire, the ladies from the Ladies' Aid are currently having a rummage sale and raising money and selling baked goods and all the rest of it and generating private cash.
By community organizer, Barack Obama meant someone who goes, as these democratic operatives do in Chicago, go down and shake people to access government money, access money that other people have earned.
And it's no surprise then that when he comes to fill his administration, who's he got to fill it?
He's got men like Ron Bloom, who is the senior counselor.
This is his official title, senior counselor to the U.S. President for Manufacturing Policy.
I assume that means he's one of these czars, one of the dancing with the czars guys that America is dancing with.
Quote, senior counselor to the U.S. President for Manufacturing Policy, unquote.
And he says, we know that the free market is nonsense.
That's the guy advising the President of the United States on manufacturing policy.
This country is the economic engine of the world.
And if you look at the present cabinet of the United States of America, it has less experience in the private sector than any administration of the last century, any administration of the last century.
These guys have never contributed to wealth creation and American innovation.
They've shown a talent for their own self-promotion into the cozy sinecures of government, and when they get there, they have a talent for expanding government.
But expanding government at the cost of the dynamic and innovative part of the economy, which is you, which is everybody trying to make something, trying to sell something, trying to create something, and just saying to the government, I could do this a whole lot better if you'd get out of the way.
And that's right, it's ridiculous that the global superpower has Ron Bloom as its senior counselor on manufacturing policy.
Mordica, Mark Stein in for Rush.
Rush returns Monday, Open Line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
You know, projected healthcare spending over the coming decade is estimated to surpass $35 trillion.
We've governmentalized $35 trillion.
Essentially, now, U.S. healthcare is a G7 economy.
It ought to be one of the permanent members of the U.S. Security Council.
We ought to make it a country.
Obamacare is stand.
That's how big the healthcare budget is.
It's a G7 economy.
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