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Sept. 1, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 1, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
I'll be here tomorrow.
Mark Davis in on Friday, and then Best of Rush for Labor Day.
And uh Rush himself returns live on Tuesday.
And I I always get sentimental.
I always get I I I I'm a sentimental kind of person.
I always get sentimental here, because it's it's amazing if you're like a a foreigner, you come to this country, you get off the boat at Ellis Island, you've got nothing, uh and you come here and you get to host America's number one radio show.
It's uh it's this is this is one of the jobs that Americans still would do, is that right, H.R. I think well they had uh like uh Carl Rove was here doing it a couple of weeks ago.
I mean it's amazing to me.
Carl Rove was guest hosting this show, and like he was uh for most of this century, he was like the third most powerful man in America.
And uh like I'm not even the third most powerful man in Grafton County, New Hampshire, but I get to host this show.
It's it's it's it's it's amazing.
So you'll forgive me if I get a little sentimental and uh and moist-eyed uh when I get my turn at the golden EIB microphone.
But but that doesn't change the fact that aside from getting an EIB guest hosting gig, uh most uh economic opportunity in this country now uh comes from government and proximity to government.
Have you been following this story of Eddie Bernice Johnson?
She's one of these people, she's been in she's one the member of the lifetime legislative class.
She was she's uh represents a district in Texas uh for twenty years.
Before that she was in the Texan State Senate and in fact redo redrew the boundaries of the district that she subsequently ran for uh on that committee.
So that that worked out pretty nicely for her.
So she got herself elected.
She's in she she gives out, disperses.
She's on the Congressional Black Caucus, and they have these foundation this they have these scholarships they hand out uh to people.
College scholarships.
Uh and basically uh what has been happening since 2005 is that uh she hands out about a third of the scholarships to uh uh members of her family, her grandchildren, and the children of her aides.
Uh for example, from 2005 2009, she gave twenty-three scholarships to four of her relatives and two children of a top aide.
Um and uh last year she gave roughly half the scholarship money to her two grandsons and to the children of this guy Givens, who who is her aide.
And uh she's now saying that, well, you know, if they'd said that this, you know, I wasn't supposed to give a third of the scholarships out to family members, obviously I wouldn't have done it, but they why didn't they why didn't they spell that out?
Why didn't they spell that out in writing?
If it has to be spelled out.
You know, this is b banana republic stuff, by the way.
This banana republic stuff.
This is uh ex I think uh H HR is proposing that they should have had a sign.
That's right.
Warning, self-dealing, nepotism, and corruption approaching.
Last exit before self-incrimination.
That's right.
We could do with some we could do with some science.
They had that in Canada, actually.
They had a problem a similar problem with this up in Canada in Ottawa, uh, that ministers of the Crown were accepting bribes.
And uh so they passed a law saying that when somebody came in to see a Minister of the Crown, the first thing the Minister of the Crowd had to say was, well, as a minister of the Crown, it would be illegal for me to accept a bribe.
And um really by the time uh you have to write that out and make the guy say it.
It's by by the way, actually, normally like when I'm in a third world country, whenever a guy goes like if I'm at a you know, a police guy pulls me over in some banana republic and he goes, Well, of course it would be illegal for me to accept a bribe.
Then of course I just that's when I just slip the uh the the twenty dollar bills uh in the back of the passport or the driver's license as I hand it.
It just means you do it more discreetly.
But so anyway, she was she's now complaining that uh she had no idea, no idea that she wasn't meant to give half the scholarships to close personal relatives.
Meanwhile, meanwhile, the Uh the the chair of the Black Caucus Foundation is furious with this.
This is this is Donald Payne, uh Democrat of New Jersey.
Uh basically he's now kicking uh Eddie Bernice Johnson under the bus saying that this is outrageous that she's been handing out all these scholarships to her grandchildren.
In part he's doing it uh because uh otherwise they'd be in looking at this crazy foundation, which actually spends less on scholarships than on fundraising galas, golf outings, and trips that allow lobbyists to rub elbows with senior lawmakers in settings that skirt campaign finance laws.
Um all this stuff the uh what the other thing I find very odd is the Congressional Black Caucus now keeps complaining that why are they the ones getting investigated?
Because like Charlie Wrangell, he's being investigated, because you you're uh uh uh he you're only meant to uh keep a vehicle in the house parking garage for six weeks without moving it uh down in Washington.
And uh he parked his Mercedes in one of the most highly coveted parking spaces in Washington in 2003 and put a tarp on it and left it there for six years.
And um and really it's a shame.
It's a crying shame we can't do that with our legislators.
I mean, I would rather, I would rather we just, instead of uh Charlie Wrangle's Mercedes being in the parking garage uh sitting idle with the tarp over it for six years, I'd much rather we had Charlie Wrangle uh in the parking garage with the tarp over him being idle for six years.
I think that would be an I think that would be an excellent solution.
This is the lifetime legislative class.
You remember that thing a couple of weeks ago, Barney Frank and his uh and his partner and his partner, they're on the ferry to f to uh Fire Island, uh, to the gay haunt at Fire Island, and he asks for the senior discount, and they say, Well, give us proof that you're a resident of uh New York State.
You don't get the senior discount unless you're a resident of New York State.
And he doesn't have it on him.
And that's what this place is like, by the way.
You talk about Arizona, you need papers for everything in this lousy uh state of New York.
So I entirely sub I entirely support that.
Uh I have to everybody has to show proof of this and proof of that in the state of New York.
So they ask him for he's now he's there on the ferry making a big fuss because f he's in public service.
And how often does it happen that a guy in public service has to put his hand in his pocket and actually get out a dollar bill and and sp and pay it himself even when he's going to the gay haunt at Fire Island.
This is the lifetime legislative class, the uh the emirs of Incumbistan uh that have driven this country, uh driven this country into the hole it's in.
I just I don't uh I want I want citizen legislators.
I want people who've done something other than politics.
Because we've got people now, we've got non-doers in charge of this country.
Uh we've got a Barack Obama who's just spent his entire adult life sitting around talking, sitting around talking, and that gives you a kind of superficial plausibility.
Believe me, I know, as a guest host, I know.
Sitting around talking.
Who can't do that?
Look at all the look at all the guys just if you just take the guys called Mark who just sit around talking on this show, anyone can do that.
But uh he he takes he takes uh Obama, we've got a guy who's never done anything in his life.
Uh Timothy Geitner, guy who's never done anything in his life, Joe Biden, lifetime legislator class.
Inuway, uh Daniel Inoue, he's been uh when did Hawaii become a state?
19 uh 59, 1960.
This guy has been uh ha has been the senator from Hawaii for almost the entire half century uh that Hawaii has been a state.
He might as well just have stuck with uh Queen uh Liliu Kalani or whatever she was called, uh if that's the system you want to get.
John Dingle, John Dingle Jr., I had the opportunity to meet the guy who's running against John Dingle, had the opportunity to talk to him a couple of months ago.
He's been an Illinois congressman since 1955.
And for the quarter century before that, uh that uh his constituents were represented uh not by John Dingle Jr., by John Dingle Sr.
So between the first uh Duke of Dingle and the second Duke of Dingle, the Dingle family has held the seat for a third of the Republic's history.
I mean, if that's what uh uh people from Illinois are looking for in their political system, why don't you just stick with the House of Lords?
You didn't need to bother holding the revolution uh if this is what you're gonna do.
And these people, these lifetime emirs of Incumbistan, should be held to account for what has happened to this country because the the uh financial situation of this country, the explosion of government happened on their watch.
You can't John Dingle Jr.
Uh who's been there since nineteen fifty five can't say he didn't know uh about any of this.
This guy, this guy has been there long before Castro.
These guys, these uh these senators for life and congressmen for life have been there longer than the longest dictators for life.
Uh John Dingall Jr. has been in office pre Castro, he predates the the Cuban health care system that we're now introducing in this country.
Uh these guys deserve to be held to account for what has happened uh on their watch.
And instead what we have uh is just this I mean it's so pathet it's pathetic this, this this the kind of nickel and dime cheesiness of it all.
Eddie Bernice Johnson handing out scholarships, uh she gets money to give to scholarships, and she gives them uh twenty-five thousand dollars scholarships to uh four of her relatives and uh two children of her aid, and she doesn't realize there is anything wrong with this.
Uh and this is this is the problem with uh the uh the American governing class now, that they have become a class uh that has insulated itself from proper rules of accountability, uh and in effect uh regards as we see when they express their opinions of the great unwashed masses out there that regards the people with contempt.
Uh as Mark Belling was talking about yesterday.
It's a way if you if you happen to support the Arizona law on i illegal uh aliens, uh, you must be xenophobic.
If you happen to support Proposition Eight in uh in California, you must be homophobic.
If you happen to be opposed to the ground zero mosque, you must be Islamophobic.
Uh, by the way, I preferred it when you were just called racist and sexist, because that was at least bigotry.
You know, that was at least bigotry.
Whereas now the the the uh the the the new ruling class says, no, you've just got these phobias.
It's not that we have a disagreement with you.
You've just got a phobia.
It's just like you're mentally ill.
If you just like the n let the nice man in the white coat lead you over into the corner and and and and and and strap you in nicely and let him stick the needle in your arm, you'll soon be feeling much better.
We don't have a political disagreement.
You just have all these xeno homo Islamophobias.
You're just mentally ill.
But we can medicate that now.
Uh that is that is one reason why we have the death of politics in this country, because we have a a corrupt, condescending leadership class that looks on the mass of the American citizenry as bigots uh who have various forms of mental illness.
And you're not.
You're right on this thing, and you deserve to stick it to these emirs of Incumbistan, uh come the vote in November.
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I want to hear, by the way, as I said last hour, if you're still driving around with the Obama Biden sticker and you still think this guy's doing a terrific job, I wanna I want to hear from you, because I would like to hear somebody make the case for what Barack Obama has done since January twentieth, two thousand and nine.
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Mark Stein, in for Rush on the EIB network.
Let us go to Ray in Livermore, California.
Uh Ray, it is uh it is great to uh have you with us.
Uh there's a Livermore in New Hampshire.
Uh it's an unincorporated township, and I think the population is uh is three.
So I'll be very impressed if we get a call from Livermore, New Hampshire today.
I take it Livermore, California, you've got rather more people uh in your town.
A lot of liver morons here, yes, sir.
Thank you for the fine work that you're doing.
Uh taking dry, boring political subjects and spicing them up with some humor.
You do a wonderful job filling in for rush.
I'm a business owner here and you're wait just a minute, just a minute.
You're a business owner in California.
Yes, sir.
Why?
Uh well uh I started twenty years ago, so I I really didn't have much common sense or experience at that time.
I may not have done it knowing what I know now.
But uh I I wanted to comment and say that you've nailed it when you say that uh Barack Obama doesn't know anything about business.
He's uh he is I have about three things I could state here.
Uh he came out and he said he can't understand why businesses aren't hiring people because there's because people are unemployed.
Right.
As if our sole purpose for running a business is to find people with cardboard signs and bring them into our establishment to get them busy because they don't have jobs.
Uh I hire people because I have too much work to do.
And when my workload exceeds what my hands can do, I search for help and I hire people to do some of my work.
And uh Barack Obama simply doesn't understand that.
He think businesses exist simply to hire people and provide them with benefit packages.
Well, and and that uh that's why he had that stupid thing uh that he introduced at one point where you get uh whatever it was, a four hundred dollar bonus if you hire hire a new worker.
I mean that's that's not as you say, that's not why uh people hire new workers.
Who who is gonna hire a new worker to get some stupid government bonus for taking on somebody you don't really need?
It's ridiculous then.
Pay them to stand round.
And then he had another idea that the banks should loosen up and loan money to small businesses so they can, quote, buy equipment and make payroll.
If you have to borrow money to make your payroll, you're in serious problems already with your business.
You're not handling your money correctly, and you don't buy equipment to sit around and do nothing because customers aren't coming in the door.
So he's he's made another terrible mistake there.
No, but you know what you know what was interesting about that is he's absorbed enough of these kind of phrases.
He's been around business people who use these phrases like, you know, make payroll.
It's very exotic to a community organizer.
He didn't have to use a lot of that lingo when uh when when when he was on his way up.
And the classic example of that is when he was talking about the advantages of a government health insurance plan, uh, because unlike private health insurance, uh they wouldn't have to make profits, so they would have lower overheads.
This is how illiterate this man, who's president of the United States to the great shame and embarrassment of the United States of America.
This is uh how uh illiterate he is on business.
He thinks that profit is part of overhead.
I mean, if you think that profit is part of overhead, uh it's no wonder you can burn through trillions and trillions of dollars and have nothing to show for it.
And then and then idiots like Pelosi and Reed uh are stomping around Capitol Hill because the Republicans won't help them pass this so-called small budget bailout or whatever they called it, which will really do nothing other than give them a place to stand up and say, see, we care about small business, we've passed a bill.
Because in Congress, uh the mark of success is that you've passed legislation.
It doesn't matter if anything is done, but you've passed a bill and we've done our work.
We can go uh out and have drinks now or whatever it is they do.
And and all the and all this all this rubbish, Ray, is just uh piling up more paperwork uh for more stupid credits uh that are not worth the time it takes you, a time you diverted from real economic energy into filling in government paperwork.
I mentioned that time uh a couple of months ago.
I w wandered into the office and I found my assistant filling in the stupid form uh asking her whether she worked with uranium.
You know, that is that is uh what government thinks of as a useful uh useful use of my employees' time to ask her stupid questions about whether she works with uranium.
I wandered in here uh a few months ago and uh I found that we had uh a letter from the New York State Bureau of Compliance informing us that we were in non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance and we were being fined fourteen thousand dollars.
Fourteen thousand dollars for being non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance.
I don't even in New York is there a Bureau of Compliance, or did some joker in a government office in Albany just have the letterheads printed up and ha and and send them out?
Because you know what it's like in America.
I mean if you get a d uh uh an announcement from the new Oh, I'm in non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance, I've been fined fourteen thousand dollars.
Oh, well, maybe they'd settle for six and the people who j you know, you can easily just uh print up the letterhead, send it out, see what comes back.
Uh so I call my I I speak to my lawyer.
I say, uh, this is outrageous.
Th this is disgusting.
This uh $14,000 fine from the New York State Bureau of Compliance.
I am outraged by this.
I would uh I would rather go to jail and be gang raped by whatever group of Albany legislators has been convicted of corruption that week.
Uh and my lawyer goes, uh so I take it then you don't want to settle.
I mean, this is why this is where it's there this this is where This is where it's going wrong.
I'm I've put on my I had new business cards printed because I thought it was important to uh provide some stimulus for the business card sector of the economy.
And it now says, you know, Mark Stein available for guest hosting gigs, uh writer, author, columnist, blah, blah, blah, and uh in full noncompliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance.
I think I think it is important.
I think it is critically important uh for uh uh uh uh more Americans to stand up and join the noncompliant.
Uh the Bureau of Compliance is killing America.
They call it other names.
In California, they got a Bureau of Home Furnishings.
Where Ray is from, Livermore, California.
They got a Bureau of Home Furnishings.
When you've got a Bureau of Home Furnishings, it's over.
Even Karl Marx did not foresee a Bureau of Home Furnishings.
Mark Stein, Inforush, lots more to come.
Great to be with you.
Let's go to Dan in Mandeville, Louisiana.
Dan, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Good to have you with us.
How are you doing, Mark?
I'm doing great, all things considered, including impending societal collapse.
How are you doing?
Okay, I hope you can help win me over a little bit.
I'm uh independent uh that uh voted for Obama.
Uh I'm not happy, I'm not happy with Obama, and I'm listening to the uh the conservative Republican uh you might say, uh, but I'm not totally convinced.
And in in you just discussed the uh cost of the war versus uh some of the other deficit spending that we had.
And I wanted to see if you could help me out a little bit in this.
Uh uh I I I do I am aware that the uh uh the war cost less than what the stimulus is.
Right.
At least the cost up to now.
Uh we are gonna have a a tremendous legacy cost in that uh because of disabilities and so on and so forth.
So No, no, no, no, no, that's that's not a way to that's not a way to think of it either, Dan.
Even if you factor in the most uh extensive costs, including human costs, including a continued footprint in Iraq or anything you want to you want to uh throw in there.
And the and common sense should tell you this, by the way, Dan.
Uh the cost of the Iraq war is still going to be a drop in the ocean uh compared, for example, to uh any kind of domestic entitlement.
Now you think about a government health care system for three hundred and fifty million people.
Nobody's attempted that before.
But the uh the the British National Health Service is the third biggest employer on the planet.
Uh it's third after uh the P the uh Chinese People's Army and the Indian Railways.
And that's because uh domestic entitlement spending, because it's universal, because it applies to everybody, is always more expensive than going and invading some third world dump on the other side of the planet.
Well, Mark, I I I get that point.
Your point was that the deficit spending was outrageous.
And uh I was pretty much on the fence on the wall whether we should go to war or whether we shouldn't.
But what really irritated me was that the Republicans didn't ask us, the American public to pay for that war.
And they financed it through China, okay, and we started our deficit in the interest.
Oh, no, no, no.
Wait, wait a minute.
I think it's worth being clear on that.
What happened uh in uh the the the brief history of the Bush administration would run something like this.
In early 2001, the Bush administration uh passed uh tax cuts which increased uh which increased uh revenues.
Now if you remember the uh Clinton administration had run surpluses, which by the way, I don't think governments should be running, because uh what what that is doing is that the government is taking more of your money, more of your money, Dan, and more of my money that it that it doesn't have a purpose for.
And that's not something the government should be in the business of doing.
So then so the the Bush administration runs its mouth, passes these tax cuts, then what happens?
It gets clobbered by September eleventh, which inflicted terrible financial damage on this country, uh and tipped us into small deficits.
Now, when I say small deficits, uh we're talking below point four of a trillion dollars.
In in other words, this is small the way we talk now.
Uh and what had happened by and the and then you had the Iraq war on top of that, but even the Iraq war was only ever a tiny slice of the proportion uh of the deficit spending.
And by the time you get to two thousand and seven, there was virtually no deficit spending except for the uh the little bit from the Iraq war.
What happened then in two thousand eight, two thousand nine, two thousand and ten, we exploded the defin deficit spending, and there is no but there are not enough Americans to pay for it.
That's the problem, Dan.
It's very simple.
There's no matter how many kids you have, no matter how many grandkids you have, when you're spending four trillion but raising two trillion, there's not enough and there's never going to be enough.
But look, listen to this.
Who started the deficit spending?
Why didn't our Republican president at the time come to the public to we just have these massive tax cuts, but we have a crisis here.
We have to go to war.
We don't want to run deficits for our grandchildren.
So why didn't he ask for the Well, because because I think this is I think this is uh uh you you can st you can make relevant relevant criticisms of President Bush.
Listen, I said right at the beginning of the show, uh you can be opposed to the war or you can support the war, but it's a waste of time opposing the war on the cost of the war because the cost of the Iraq war is irrelevant in the vast sucking more of the Federal Treasury.
The Federal Treasury pays for monkeys in Carolina, North Carolina, South Carolina, I can't remember.
Maybe it's both.
Uh maybe it's some kind of by state thing to be pumped with cocaine.
Uh there is uh I don't know what, I don't know what they're they're looking at for the effects of cocaine on monkeys, because if the monkeys don't react too extremely to the cocaines, it may be that they could serve as functioning uh government bureaucrats.
I don't know why they're being s uh pumped full of cocaine.
But by comparison with all the rest of the government spending, the cost of the Iraq war is irrelevant.
It's nothing.
It's something it's something like four uh responsible for four percent of the deficit uh in in fiscal year two thousand and ten.
It's all the other stuff you need to worry about, Dan.
You compared it to Obama's uh de uh uh stimulus program, which by the way, I don't believe is successful, and I don't think was uh uh uh uh positioned right, okay.
But remember, Republicans have proposed also a stimulus package, which was about eighty percent as cost as costly as the Democratic plan, okay?
So so and it was a stimulus that was also going to try to make jobs and do such and such.
No, I I oppose I oppose that too.
But listen, the argument for Keynesian stimulus spending is that you do stuff.
You don't I'm not a disciple of uh keen uh Keynesian economics.
But the idea is you use the government uses stimulus money to direct it to projects that will stimulate the economy.
Obama, Pelosi and Reed directed the money to stimulate their uh cronies, uh the way that uh that facility in uh South Carolina stimulates the monkeys with cocaine.
Uh they took their cronies and they injected them full of government cash.
And that is why there is nothing to show for the stimulus except for stupid signs saying this sign brought to you by the American uh recession and redistribution act.
Uh you can say what you like about the Iraq war, but Saddam Hussein is dead.
He was strung up at the end of a rope.
Uh if if this had been if this had been uh run by the Obama stam stimulus package, uh there would have been a sign saying this is the designated sign for the Saddam Hussein execution scaffold, which we will be building circa 2037.
Uh this is the this is the this is the point.
The Obama stimulus uh embodies the seizing up of America.
The seizing up of America.
Governmentalization is like sclerosis in your veins.
Uh it it uh hardens your arteries.
You can't move.
You can't move now uh without encountering some stupid government program, some stupid bureaucrat.
Uh we read all these stories, seven-year-old girl uh is got a lemonade stand in Oregon and some guy swings by and says, you know, you need a hundred and twenty-five dollar permit for that.
A nice little old lady is making a pecan pie for the church bake sale, and they say, Oh no, you need to have a state-inspected kitchen for that.
Got there is too much government.
Government is squatting like a giant toad on the wealth producing class of this country and w and there's simply not enough wealth producing class left uh to support what's going on in.
Now I'll make a bigger point.
This occurred to me uh while I was overseas.
And I I found myself suddenly thinking, we know there's not enough money in America to fund the way to to fund U.S. government spending.
We know there's not enough money in America.
The interesting question is whether there's enough money on the entire planet to spend what Obama is proposing to spend and what the Democrats are proposing to spend for the next ten years.
Is there enough pl money on the planet?
Now in modern times, uh the rest of the planet's GDP, they've spent about something under five percent of that has been held in U.S. treasuries.
Uh under the Obama scenario, the rest of the planet is gonna want to have to sink twenty percent of the rest of the planet's GDP into U.S. Treasury securities.
It's not gonna want to do it.
That's why I'm saying this kind of spending, it's total societal collapse.
You might as well break into that South Carolina facility, grab the cocaine off the monkeys and stuff it up your own nose, because at that point, it's over.
Mark Stein uh Inforush, lots more to come.
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Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
I said uh half an hour ago or so I uh was talking about John Dingle Jr. and John Dingle Sr. who've held their uh congressional seat for I think the last eighty years now.
And uh I I think I said they were in Illinois.
In fact, they're in Michigan, so my apologies for that.
But you know what it's like with uh for fellows like me, all you foreigners look alike, so I can't expect uh Michiganders and Illinoisians.
It's it gets all f complicated.
Let's go to Maggie in uh this has been spelt phonetically uh for me.
It's uh you yupala, Oklahoma.
Is that right, Maggie?
You you follow.
You fa I follow I follow you in Ufala.
Uh inshallah, you fala, as we uh as we say in the Middle East.
Great uh great to have you with us, Maggie.
Hey, uh, where does uh Maggie come on Rush's list of uh top ten female names?
Oh, it's number 17.
No, we gotta get we gotta get that up to um I love the name, uh I love the name Maggie.
When you and I were young, Maggie, that's a beautiful beautiful song.
Uh do you know I can't let Maggie go?
No, I don't know that one.
Oh, I think that might just be a British hit for Honeybus.
I think it got to number twenty-three in nineteen sixty-seven.
Uh you should look that up.
It's j a delightful, uh delightful song.
That's the that's the other great thing about Maggie.
It's it's a name with uh at least two good songs after it.
Great to have you on the show, Maggie.
Apart from the uh mellifluousness of your name, what else can we do for you?
Well, I called because uh you pegged these community organizer people exactly right.
I went to school with people who uh wanted to become community organizers and um and uh I chose a different path, but I've run into these people over the years, and uh what you said about talk talk talk talk talk.
Uh that's exactly right.
And not only that, but there is a language you could have a Berlitz course on on the language that they come up with, and I think in my cynical opinion, it's all to hide what they're really doing.
I mean, when you try to find these people in the community, they're always in a meeting or they're always out talking to someone.
I don't know, in Oklahoma, they may be in the casinos or the bars or the movies or whatever.
But um my feeling is is that uh they're better off just talk talk talking and not doing anything because I said they're like bloodhounds, you know, they're sniffing out grievances, and if they can't find one, you know, then they'll create one.
They'll create right, and then they'll come up with some grant money plan to take care of this grievance, and that's when all the bureaucratic language kicks in and so forth.
And I've seen very, very few things in my career that have actually been better.
I think the smaller programs, yes.
But anything where they've got a staff and an office And all of that kind of stuff.
The bigger it gets, it's like the federal government.
Well, nobody nobody wants to live in a community organized by a community organizer.
That's the reality of it.
I mean, uh Barack Obama didn't live in the community he organized.
He lived in uh swanky old Hyde Park with Bill Ayers and the rest of the gang.
He didn't want to live uh in the in the in the so-called community he organized.
And you're right, they do speak this language, this uh organizerino or whatever it is when you buy the Burlitz cassette so you can teach yourself how to uh how to speak organizarino.
And uh th th this these are the kind of non we finally this is the result, by the way, of uh two generations of American education uh being oriented to think I mean the idea that you were at school in New Fala, Oklahoma, and you say there were large numbers of people who want to I have never when I was at school, nobody said, Oh, I'd like to grow up and and become a community organizer.
I don't know, maybe I had a deprived childhood and didn't go to didn't go to the right kind of school, but uh the idea that people actively want to go into that, uh all these the problem with all these things, and you see it now, um you you you see it in uh i whenever they do these lists of the highest earning counties, the counties where households have the highest income.
They're all next to government.
They're all near uh either the federal capital or the state capitals.
Uh they're all about being access to government.
Once upon a time, remember you used to have steel towns in this country.
You'd drive out and you'd be in the middle of Michigan, and there'd be a big st uh steel town where the uh the the guys that were nice uh three-story Victorian homes on the tree-lined avenues uh and the railway came through.
And now they're all crumbling, and instead the prime real estate depends on government.
Government is the big industry.
And uh community organization is a non-job, a phony baloney job.
Sarah Palin was right about that.
It's an entirely non-job.
You should we should take every community organizer and stick them on one of those uh atolls in the South Pacific that will re-emerge once uh Barack Obama has lowered the ocean levels, uh, and we could commute uh call it community or the Republic of Community Organizerville, and they could all be happy organizing themselves all day long.
But it's a non-job, a complete waste of time, and nobody who really wants to make a contribution to this country should be wasting their time with it.
Mark Stein in for us, Morticon.
Hey, let's go to John in New Mexico before we close things out today.
John, we're we're up against the clock, but uh what what what what did you want to say?
Hey, Mark, talk to America.
I'm sorry it's not the country it once was.
I still love it.
Good for you.
Maybe we can fix it.
Listen, um I I like your metaphor about the Bureau of Compliance.
In in my own little stupid uh uh uh feudal way, I try to resist it a little bit every day, whether it's you know, smuggling booze onto onto the aircraft past TSA or whatever.
Just tie just tie it to the cell phone.
They usually don't spot that.
Why is it that the left seems to have a monopoly on exploiting that gray area between the you know that the area of civil disobedience between the illegal and the legal why can't right wingers why can't we?
Well, because they why can't we fight it?
We they belong to privileged identity groups.
So if you want to belong to if you want to join the alliance of non-compliance as it marches across the land, you have to find yourself a privileged identity group.
That's why whenever I uh get a form from the government and they ask uh what group I belong to, I always uh check transgendered and Pacific Islander.
Uh because apart from anything else, uh it it's a twofa, uh, but it also wrecks the uh wrecks the database.
And I think it's actually I think it's actually very important, uh, very important to do that.
The Bureau of Noncompliance, it is our only way of resisting resisting the march of Pelosi Reed compliance uh in this country.
We'll discuss that and lots more when the Rush Limbaugh show returns uh tomorrow and noon till three.
It's been great fun.
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