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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 Anchorman sitting in.
Not just uh undocumented, but uh as I said just before the uh break, I'm proud to be in non-compliance uh 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 uh I gather I'm uh giving a speech in uh somewhere in New York, I think in June in Ulster County.
So uh with a bit of luck the New York State troopers may uh 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 uh with whatever uh gang of New York State legislators has been convicted for for corruption uh 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'd be uh just I'm just uh just throwing that out.
You know, I believe in equality before the law, but so I'm just interested to know uh if you happen to work for the New York State Bureau of Compliance, uh, and uh do let me know whether uh whether Elliot Spitzer's 300 an hour hooker is in compliance with the uh 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, he's here in print because he has a terrific piece in the Wall Street Journal today, uh called Liberals and the Violence Card.
Uh 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, uh, of having incited Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVay.
Now it was nonsense then, and uh, 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 uh what uh uh what uh Timothy McVeigh was steamed about.
He uh he he committed his act in Oklahoma City uh two years uh to the day after the uh federal assault on the Waco compound.
That's what was bugging him.
Waco.
So he killed a whole bunch of people.
Uh he was also soured on America after he'd served in the first Gulf War.
In fact, supposedly, you know, for a notorious right-wing hater, he's actually remarkably Islamophile.
Uh but as Rush points out, uh this was discreditable enough at the time, in the wake of an actual act of uh mass murder, uh by for Bill Clinton uh to do something as contemptible as this.
I mean, uh but at the time it you know, it had a certain sort of brilliant opportunism uh to it, no matter how contemptible, to revive it 15 years later, in an attempt to slur peaceful people, uh, exercising their right in a free society to take issue with their rulers uh is is even more disgusting.
There's been no there's been no violence.
This is one of the most peaceful uh mass movements ever seen.
In fact, one of the things you notice is 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 uh whichever downtown happens to be hosting the summit.
They can't get anywhere near the the rulers.
They can't.
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, uh, and then these thugs just go rampaging back and forth through the streets.
Happened all through uh the years leading up to September 11th.
Uh I happened to see it uh in uh in uh Quebec City at the summit of the Americas.
I remember the the heady whiff of tear gas in my eyes, uh as uh as as the anti-globalization thugs rampage through the streets.
Uh that is actual violence, and 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 uh by the time they move on.
The 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 mole in Washington, the mall looked cleaner, having been cleaned by the Tea Party guys than w then than if it had just been left to the federal employees to clean it up.
Uh So this is a grotesque slur.
And Rush is quite right to call them on it.
The idea, the idea that uh 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 this there's somehow you you're just one degree of separation from Timothy McVeigh.
You know, if you meet, ooh, and all and all the uh the brain dead media, the state-run media, they repeat this with a they report Bill Clinton's thing, you know, and he's got that thing now, Clinton, where he wears the little uh 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 uh he's just repeating a 15-year-old slur.
Uh 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.
Uh and Rush is right uh to call these uh uh these people on it.
You know, the the Democrats are masters at the uh uh of the art of uh the politics of personal destruction, uh and they're brilliant at it.
Uh, you know, Busch Hitler, uh General Betrayus, uh Sarah Palin isn't really the mother of of her child, she's really the grandmother.
She's covering up for it.
They've got there's there's eminent colonists who who have appointed uh themselves chief obstetrician in 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, uh, to question what government is doing when when you have a transformative radical government uh uh introducing one unaffordable, unprecedented, transformative two thousand-page bill uh after another.
Uh and uh uh and actually, you know, when a lot of other countries in 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 uh the other day, a kind of prototype one, and I think that's a good sign.
I wish they had Tea Party rallies uh in the United Kingdom, I wish they had Tea Parties in France, in Germany, in Italy.
These countries would be healthier uh 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 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 s you're just a hair trigger away uh from lighting up the fertilizer in the back of your truck and blowing the whole place to Kingdom Come.
Uh, this is something uh that Bill Clinton should be ashamed, even by his own uh standards of shamelessness of being reduced to.
This pathetic shill uh for Barack Obama trudging around the country now, uh reviving this uh decade and a half old old slur.
Uh and and by the way, in the meantime, in the meantime, what do we see?
Uh do you know this show South Park?
I don't I've got lousy TV reception uh in my part of New Hampshire, so I I can't uh I can't see it.
But it's a big show on Comedy Central, and they're rude about everybody, basically.
And that's that's like uh the American way, they're equal opportunity guys, they're rude about uh Christians, they're rude about Jews.
Uh and they happen to mention uh Mohammed, Mohammed, uh big guy, big guy in the Muslim scene, uh, the other day.
And when the show aired on uh Wednesday night, Comedy Central, uh, cut all references to Mohammed because of explicit threats of uh violence by uh I think we need to give it, let me find see if I can find the guy's name, because I think he needs to take a bow for it.
Uh oh, yeah, here we go.
Uh Abu Talah al-Amricki.
He put up a video on the internet uh explaining why this South Park episode with a rather tame Mohammed joke was going to lead to the deaths of the show's creators.
Um and uh just to make the point more explicit, he he showed a picture of uh Theo Van Gogh, uh the Dutch film director who was uh who was killed by a guy called uh Mohammed by uh coincidence.
And uh Mr. Al Amricki uh then explained that he wasn't actually inciting, personally inciting the murder of the creators of South Park.
Um 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 an 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?
Uh they folded like a cheap bed of intent and they censored South Park, uh, they cut all the references to Mohammed, and they even cut the little speech at the end where one of the characters says how about how important it is to stand up to him in intimidation.
Uh so Comedy Central was so intimidated, uh they cut 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 uh seventy-eight-year-old widow who who's a bit worried about some of uh section 47 uh clause three on page uh 1862 of the health care bill, she's Timothy McVeigh.
She's gonna blow at any minute.
Keep away from her, don't look them 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 they're happy to call you a terrorist, but faced with the people explicitly threatening to kill them, they just fold, they cave in, they concede everything.
Uh th this this is really uh the liberal world in a in a nutshell.
You know, the Iranian nuclear program isn't the threat.
You guys concerned about federal spending uh uh are the real threat.
The fellow uh who ca who 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' uh health insurance program now, all the young hip Americans under 57 uh get their news from Comedy Central.
John 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, uh and and uh uh and and uh there's a real threat of violence, they cave in, they concede, uh, they surrender.
But at the same time, liberals are always happy to take on phantom enemies.
Which is what Bill Clinton did in the nineties, actually.
Back when he was demonizing talk radio, uh Osama bin Laden and the gang had the run of the planet.
Except for the one time when uh the day after his grand jury testimony or whatever it was, uh when he fired a couple of million dollar cruise missiles into that uh empty aspen factory in Sudan.
Other than that, uh real enemies had the run of the planet while he demonized Rush.
Uh this this is the liberal world view.
They're terrific at fighting phantoms uh while letting real enemies have the run of the planet.
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Let us go to Miami and uh talk to Jose.
Is that right, Jose?
It's not Josie and the and the Pussycats like uh in uh Archie and Riverdale that we were talking about earlier with their exciting news.
Uh actually I wouldn't know much about Josie and the pussy cats, but uh you you can just call me Jose.
Jose or call me Ted, whatever you like.
Oh, no, no.
Jose's good.
They don't have do you have have you got an accent on the E?
We don't have I I really think this is uh we've got an insufficiently uh multicultural call screen uh uh uh uh s uh up here because we don't have proper accents on half these uh these names.
Great to have you with us, Jose.
Uh, thank you, Mark.
I appreciate it.
H here's a question that's been uh in the back of my head.
Considering that uh 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 that was not working back then?
How how is it that they're gonna make it work this time?
Well, that that's uh that's a very good point.
I mean, what what is so pathetic about this administration is that everything has been tried before.
This idea that there is any new kind of hope uh or any kind of change in this by change, by change, what Obama means is all the stuff uh that a lot of European countries found out the hard way in the 1970s failed.
This is like one of those uh uh straight to video uh movie horror movie sequels where the zombie returns to life.
Uh uh people in the nineteen seventies in European countries and in uh uh in Britain in particular, where Mrs. Thatcher worked hard to kill the zombie uh of uh uh of massive uh destructive statism that that ends all kind of economic uh energy in a society,
and then uh thirty 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 uh ever attempted.
Uh, what it what is fascinating to me is to is to see, for example, now we're talking about introducing the VAT.
You know this thing, Jose?
The VA?
Okay, that's that let me tell you, with the expiring Bush tax cuts combined with crap and tax and they impose the VAT with the increases in the in regular income taxes.
I mean, where does it end?
Yeah, exactly.
Because there's never there's never enough money.
Uh and what is interesting if 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 uh on an economic level with uh the United States, up until they all began introducing the uh VAT in the late 1960s.
Since then, they have not been competitive in an economic sense uh with the United States.
So what are we gonna do now?
Uh we're gonna introduce this soul sucking, hidden uh 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 uh is uh further decent disincentivizing economic energy.
All this stuff isn't hard.
Every 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, uh either in a relatively mild view, uh mild way, uh in Western Europe, or as you go further in in an even more insane way.
The difference is nobody's ever tried it with a continental nation of three hundred million people before.
I used to think that health care, for example, government health care, we were just heading for a disaster on the scale of Britain's National Health Service uh or the Canadian system.
But it's gonna be way worse than that because Britain has sixty million people and its National Health Service is the third biggest employer on the planet uh after uh the Chinese Army and Indian National Railways.
Uh so now you imagine the scale of disaster when you uh you when that's what happens when you do it for sixty million people on a small island.
If you do it for three hundred and fifty million people from Maine to Hawaii, you're looking at an entirely different scale of disaster.
But consider how is it that 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 I mean that that reality it just uh I mean are they b I mean uh they have rationalized it, Jose?
What what what all these pro what all these problems have in common is government power?
Uh i if you look at the whatever the first sentence of that stupid story I read out about the SEC uh sitting around watching porn movies all day, the regulators, these that we need so much, sitting around watching porn movies that uh 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 how is this any how is Obama doing any good, real good for the country as far as you know, just helping us move forward?
I mean, what are these uh don't people stop and think critically that you know this is this is unsustainable.
Uh the this 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, com uh combined with with uh the so-called uh lame uh lame street media that that that you know Bush by was not perfect.
He was not uh 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 and all your head, yeah.
Well, you know, the worst one, the worst ones though, Hose.
I mean, some people knew he was like he he had a hardcore transformative agenda, and they supported they supported him on that basis.
The really pathetic ones, uh, 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 a post-partisan centrist.
There's nothing to worry about.
Where's the postpartisan centrist?
He spent uh the Democrat Congress spent over nine trillion dollars.
Uh that's the total tag on their legislation in the last twelve month.
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 uh in on Monday, back on Monday, and in the meantime, this is Mark Stein sitting in.
Open line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
Uh this was interesting, I thought.
Steve Wynne in the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Uh Steve Wynne is announcing he's like the big guy in Vegas.
He owns all the uh the fancy resorts there.
He's been in the business for, you know, decades now, going back to uh used uh used to fly around on Frank Sinatra's uh jet all the time and accompany him to uh to doing shows in uh in in Steve Wynne's casinos.
He's now announcing uh that he might um that he might move uh his company's corporate headquarters from Las Vegas to uh Macau.
Uh he's saying that uh he's he's been very critical of President Obama, uh and he's saying uh that uh essentially uh as we uh we we he he doesn't want to waste time given the hostile business climate uh in the United States and it would make more sense for him to move his operations uh to Macau, which is uh, you know, off the coast of uh off the coast of China, the former Portuguese colony.
Uh that's great, isn't it?
You know, so par uh stuff under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China is now more eco is now more economically favorable business environment uh than the United States with its massively expanded uh regulation involving uh SEC regulators sitting around watching hardcore pornography all day.
By the way, I mean I'm in uh on balance if I have to choose.
I prefer uh hardcore pornography to hardcore regulation.
So I I i if 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 I'd far rather the New York State Bureau of Compliance was watching hardcore pornography uh all day long than uh 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.
Uh this this is uh this is very interesting because you remember uh Obama basically took over General Motors, they may he made them Obama Motors, government motors, uh, but they're now saying, oh, don't worry about that.
We're repaying uh the money that the Obama administration gave gave us.
So like you're repaying it with like your money uh from your private checking account, your private savings account, from your investors, from money uh earned in the uh private sector and that you have acquired uh as the corporation and repaid to taxpayers.
Is that what you said?
Well, it turns out it's not quite like that.
They've uh repaid the money Obama gave them directly with money from the TARP program, the troubled asset relief program.
Uh so if you can f follow this, um the the government the General Motors received money from the government uh that it's now repaid with money from the government.
You know, people are very critical of Obama economics, and they say they say, you know, this stuff doesn't add up.
We now see how it works.
If you get a massive government loan, say uh Barack Obama lends you a trillion dollars uh 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.
Uh so uh General Motors has taken money from TARP to repay the money it took from the government motors bailout.
You see that?
Everything's gonna don't you look this may sound complicated to you, but that's because you're not a sophisticated intelligent economist like uh Barack Obama and his team.
Don't worry your pretty little head about it.
Everything's gonna everything'll all make sense.
Uh the government is borrowing uh as as Jonah Goldberg put it at National Review, the government uh it's in it'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 Lorreen in Old Forge, Pennsylvania.
Uh is it Laureen or Laureen, Laureen or Laureen?
Laureen.
Lorreen.
Laureen.
Great to have you with us.
Where uh HR, where does Laureen come on Rush's list of uh of uh all time favorite uh names?
Oh, number twelve.
No, it can't be number twelve.
Lor Lorreen is a much better name like that.
We're gonna put you in at uh number four with a bullet, Laureen.
You're climbing up the hit parade of favorite names.
Uh you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great 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.
And uh and and I would imagine that over the course of the last year there's far more things that uh that have made you steam than you'd like to talk about on the show. 'Cause it's been one hell of a year.
Okay, what's what what's what's what's bugging you today, Lauraen?
Oh my goodness, where do I start?
Um well, first of all, I am a Scranton Tea Party organizer, so Oh, you mean you're a terrorist?
I am.
You're you're just like uh well, I tell you sa I tell you something.
I'm I'm glad we're several states apart because I don't want to be anywhere near you when you uh light up the suicide bomber belt.
Bill Clinton has said that you're kind of angry, hateful, racist, uh homophobic, uh seditious.
Joe Klein called you seditious.
Your your seditious there's nothing more seditious, by the way, than quoting the Constitution and Thomas Jefferson.
Doesn't get any more seditious than that.
Uh I guess that's why Joe Biden decided to come to our airport today.
Oh, really?
What's he what's he doing?
What's he doing uh in Pennsylvania then?
He's trying to get uh Spectre elected.
Really?
If y you know, nothing is gonna get Arlen Spectr elected.
If Arlen Spector 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 Specter elected.
I know.
Well I even got a robo call and I'm a Republican, so they mustn't have been able to get too many Democrats to show up.
Yeah, but yeah, but so was he until twenty minutes ago.
He's got a he's got a rolodex full of Republican numbers.
Getting Republicans to work for our inspector worked for work 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 who do you bet on for uh for that set of race?
You think Pat Toomy's gonna do it?
I hope so.
I hope so.
We're trying to help him out, so I hope so.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's a he's a good m he's a good man, Pat uh Pat Toomey.
I've I've met him a couple of times and he's uh he's a solid guy and uh certainly anyone is better than uh Arlen Allen uh Spector who gave the most stupid response in the Clinton impeachment trial when uh what what did he say he used the Scottish uh system and said not proven.
Is that right?
I think it was his verdict.
Uh but it uh the case against Arlen Specter has been more comprehensively proven uh than anything.
So he's done he's toast and we look forward to Senator Toomey in uh November.
Any anything else as you've been waiting so long, Laureen?
Yes.
Um I read both health care and cap and trade bills.
I'm a nurse.
Um you read both those bills.
Uh 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 no like Congressman or Senate type guys have done that kind of thing.
Uh and uh who was it representing was it Representative Conyers who said uh there'd be no point to me reading it 'cause I wouldn't understand what was in it anyway.
You're uh that's the problem that you're you're sitting there in Old Forge, Pennsylvania and it's guys like Codyas who are running everything back in Washington.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
It's a very good thing.
By the by the way, how how do they turn out?
Is there a happy ending when you get to page uh seventeen hundred and twenty-eight of those things?
Or is it uh uh uh basically uh just gets worse the longer you read?
It's it's worse the longer you read, but I I picked out um three items that I felt would affect Northeast Pennsylvania the most.
Um and I'm trying to educate people on those sections.
Um and those are the certified stoves program.
Right.
And that is regarding pellet stoves and wood burning stoves that they must be destroyed and uh recycled to the maximum extent feasible.
Great.
Uh 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 by the way?
Do you know how many people are wood stoves in uh here in New Hampshire?
This is uh this is crazy talk.
So we now have a federal, a federally regulated wood stove regime.
They're afraid of our wood 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 McVay.
Uh that was your first that was your first one.
What was the second what was the second point?
The second section is tree planting programs.
Uh they require tree recipients to sign an agreement 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 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 I was joking earlier about take your daughter to work day, and I said, you know, earth earth day is take your tree to work day.
And it is.
Basically, your tree is, for the purposes of regulation, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the United States government.
That's uh that's that's uh that's terri 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 what's the third one?
The third one is home inspections and the sale of your home.
Uh the 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.
Oh.
And this is giving federal government authority to inspect our 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 your sconce in your bathroom uh to their heart's content.
Listen, that's not even funny because they even have it listed right down to the um light bulbs in your artwork.
Like if you have a piece of artwork on your lawn and has a light bulb in it.
Yeah.
That's uh that's a serious you know, that's a serious thing.
We're not talking about something peripheral like the uh Iranian nuclear program.
Your your picture light, you've got like you've got some like uh painting, uh, you know, a big time terrorist tea party lady like you, Laureen, would have a uh might have a picture of some uh 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 uh to take care of.
I know, it's outrageous.
That and that and and uh for guys like me, I mean I've I've got a two hundred year old dump.
Uh the idea that I now can't sell it without having somebody come in and inspect uh th it's not HR wants to have my home is a historical monument.
No, it no it's not.
It's a compound.
When the when the feds arrive to take me out, it won't be uh described as a nice two hundred year old CDIC farmhouse.
It will be described as a compound.
I'm I'm in the compound character.
Yeah, you're in the compound.
Yeah.
You know, I have an older home that I live in, and, you know, they're talking about furnaces, dishwashers, appliances.
Everything has to be changed out before you can sell your home.
Yeah, they want to they want it, they'll penalize you for having a top loading washer instead of a front loading washer, which is apparently more uh environmentally friendly uh for some reason because you have to bend down so you don't like to load it up uh and run it quite as often or whatever.
But this is but uh you you made the you made the right point here, Lorreen, that the the reason we have all this stuff uh is not because of the peripheral benefit from regulating your picture lights.
It's giving the government the 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 pre freedom.
Uh the bigger government gets uh the more liberty shrivels.
And you've just mentioned small three small things.
They're not they're not things that nobody is gonna be uh 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.
Tocville's phrase, it's the soft despotism that uh Tocqueville warned of uh two hundred years ago, and which and which big government now has the uh technology to enforce.
Thank you.
Thank you for your call, Laureen.
It was great to talk to you.
Don't leave it another year till you uh till you call again, because you're number four on the uh favorite ladies' names list.
So uh so uh do get back to us.
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Uh gotta go and uh earn uh have a uh 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 Limbaugh show.
Hey, Mark, happy Friday from the land of the Longhorns.
Yeah, great.
Uh uh have you got uh live longhorns wandering through the streets of Austin, because uh because you're you're you're like in the little big government quarter of Texas.
You could do with a few uh a few less uh f uh uh government employees and a few more longhorns in the streets.
Exactly.
We're turning into a little Washington here, it seems like.
Um anyway, my uh my thoughts, Mark, were actually I want to get your thoughts on something.
Um we've all heard uh Obama and all his cronies, Valerie Jarrett, Axel Rod, and so on and so forth.
Uh here lady all claiming that they're all about prosperity and the capitalism and free market, and uh just on and on and on, you know what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
Sure.
And uh it it seems real strange to me that uh people like Paul Ryan and and others uh in his place uh aren't screaming from the rooftops this fact.
And that is uh the video that I saw on Glenn Beck with uh Ron Bloom, uh the guy that's uh in charge of in reinvigorating our economy for Obama.
I'm sure he was appointed by Obama.
He made the statement that the free market in capitalism is nonsense.
That's right.
And maybe maybe I'm reading too much into this, Mark.
And anyway, I'm gonna hang up and I wanted to get your thoughts on that.
No, Cliff, that that's a very that's a very good point.
Um Barack Obama is who he is.
Uh he hasn't ever made a payroll, he hasn't ever run anything.
I think the last thing he even nominally ran ran was the Harvard Law Review, and apparently he was just happy to be a benign figurehead, and he actually wasn't uh running that in any executive sense.
Uh and he chose instead uh to spend his entire adult life with people who don't create wealth or run wealth anyway uh in any sense either.
What is a community organizer, for example?
We're not talking about people who uh like the community organizers in uh in my little town in New Hampshire, the the uh ladies from the ladies' aid are currently having uh rummage sale and raising money and uh and and selling baked goods and all the rest of it, and uh generating private cash.
Uh uh by community organizer, uh Barack Obama meant someone uh who goes, as these democratic operatives do in Chicago, go down and shake people to access government money, access money that other people uh have earned.
And and uh 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 uh 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's one who uh means he's one of these czars, one of the uh 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 uh of the world.
And uh if you look at the present cabinet of the United States of America, it has less experience in the private sector uh 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 uh into the cosy sinecure of government, and when they get there, they have a talent for expanding government.
But expanding government uh at the cost of the dynamic and innovative uh 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.
Uh and that's and that's right, it's ridiculous that the the global superpower has Ron Bloom as its senior counselor on manufacturing policy.
Mordecan.
Mark Stein, Inforush.
Rush returns Monday, Openline Friday, 1800-282-2882.
Uh, you know, projected health care spending over the coming decade is estimated to surpass thirty-five trillion dollars.
We've governmentalized thirty-five trillion dollars.
Uh essentially now, U.S. health care is a G7 economy.
It ought to be on the one the permanent members of the US Security Council.
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