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Nov. 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 18, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's anchor man is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
They cannot pat me down.
I am unpat downable.
Rush will be back uh Monday.
I'm gonna be here tomorrow.
I don't know what don't know what we're doing tomorrow, because Rush did Rush did open line uh open line Friday on Wednesday, yesterday.
Uh so I don't know what uh I don't know what that means we're gonna be done to uh we're gonna be done tomorrow.
We'll we'll maybe we'll do we go Wednesday on Friday or something.
I don't know.
We'll we'll we'll come up with something.
Rush will be back on Monday to take you into the Thanksgiving holiday.
That will be the most enhanced pat downs in any twenty-four hour period.
This will be uh it will be interesting to see whether the TSA will be able to handle uh that that uh that number of pat downs.
Just to go back uh to uh something uh that was said I think it was Dale uh in the last hour, uh where we were talking about uh uh psychological profiling, essentially judging people as individuals when they present themselves towards you.
Because we're doing what we're doing at the moment is we're just profiling things.
So every time all the jihadists have to do is come up with a new thing, a new thing uh that we we haven't quite thought of.
For example, the first uh the first jihadist uh to to put a bomb in, say, the uh breast implants, gel implants of his uh uh of his uh wife.
Uh then you should wait to see what the lines are gonna be like at like LA LAX, for example, when they're when they're taken there and they're discovering they're gonna have to pat down every single uh breast implant in America or they're gonna have to scan every uh breast implant in America.
So at the moment we're just l we're just profiling things.
We're profiling shoes, we're profiling liquids.
Uh the very first time I guest hosted for Rush, I I'd flown in from uh Auckland, New Zealand, and I tried to buy a little snow globe for my daughter.
And uh the just as I paid for it, the lady at the checkout goes, Oh, wait, are you flying to America?
And I go, yes.
And they look at you, they give you a pitying look now, because if you're flying around, if you were flying from, say uh Osw Oslo to Islamabad uh or from Auckland to Hong Kong or from Hamburg to Suva Fiji, none of this stuff matters.
But it's only cause it's the United States, the most powerful nation in the on on earth that we have to undergo this.
So she said, No, no snow globes are on the prohibit li prohibited list.
Because even though we were inside the the what they call the sterile area at the airport, a phrase which rings oddly different now with all this patting down going on.
Even though we were in the sterile area, uh she there was still a risk that I could have weaponized that snow globe.
I could have taken the snow globe into the menu.
It was one of these ones it had New Zealand sheep on it, and if you shook it up, all this little snow uh sparkly snow stuff uh twinkled down and fell on the new attractive New Zealand sheep.
But I could have taken that into the men's room and weaponized the snow globe.
Weaponize the snow globe and replaced the sparkly spangly uh snowflakes with uh whatever it's called, PTA explosive, and weaponize the snow globe.
So snow globes are on the l you can't take a snow globe into uh the uh United States of America.
A lady just wrote to me by email and said that uh she'd been going through the uh the the security thing uh at an American airport and the scanner had revealed that she had a peach in her bag.
And the peach, you know, was a little overripe.
So there was a large debate as to whether the peach counted as a solid or as a liquid.
Because at a certain point, obviously.
I mean this is true, th it's it's it's it's it is the murky gray area.
At what point does the peach turn from a solid into something, you know, far far less substantive?
I don't know about you, but it's actually happening to my genitalia when I go through the pat down.
Same thing.
And the um uh the the fine is a very fine line between a solid and something not quite as solid as it was until Homeland Security began to poke and prod at it.
And uh so th this is now where profiling things.
The list of things is endless.
The list of things there is no end to it.
There is no end to it.
Snow globes, breast implants, overripe peaches, there's no end to things.
There are limits to the kind of people who want to blow up the United States of America.
And this country, everybody seems to think we got the money to to pat down seven billion inhabitants of the planet.
We don't.
We're broke.
We're broke.
This country's broke.
It's going off a cliff.
Uh in in it has unsustainable multi-trillion dollar debts.
It's the biggest debtor nation in the history of the United States.
I love the way people think Well, we can spend what's necessary to do the job right.
No, we're broke.
We're broke.
We have to be able to target limited resources because we've spent all the money.
Uh we've spent all the money driving the country off the cliff by wasting the money.
So if you take nothing away from the absurdity of enhanced pat downs of three year old girls, if you're cool with it in principle, if you think, well, I don't see why a three year old girl shouldn't shouldn't have a private parts felt by a government official, where's the harm in that?
At least look at it from a fiscal conservative point of view and understand that this country does not have the money to inspect the private parts of three year old girls in the so called interests of uh security.
So uh I think it was Dale was saying why don't we why don't we profit like we did with the uh the Millennium Bomber, who um who who was uh sweaty and shifty, and that's how they caught him.
You know, I I said I was at Burlington Airport Vermont.
I don't want to beat up on Barlington Airport Vermont because it's uh you know, it's an airport I fly out of, and I don't want a lot of trouble.
I don't want a lot of trouble there.
But but here's what happened to me before I got the pat down yesterday.
To enter the sterile area, I handed over my driver's license.
And this guy did what he'd done with all the previous passengers.
The the TSA guy examined my driver's license and he examined it and examined it, examined it, and he then he examined it some more.
And he had uh what are those things that diamond jewelers um uh what do they call them?
A loop.
Uh, you know, one of those magnifying glasses that the uh the professional jewelers use to examine diamonds for any uh surface blemish or in uh little little flaws there might be in the diamond.
And in this case, the TSA agent was deploying the loop to examine how the ink lies on the paper of my driver's license.
And then when he finished that, he got out a UV light, uh you know, one of those UV lights to study the watermark on my driver's license.
And looking down at his bald patch as he went about his work with uh loving care, uh I was overcome by a sudden urge to point out that nobody has ever blown up a US airliner with a fake driver's license.
Who needs to?
You don't need to blow up a US airliner when it's so uh with a fake driver's license when it's the easiest thing in the world uh to blow up a US airliner with a real driver's license.
On September eleventh, two thousand and one, four of the terrorists boarded the flight with genuine valid picture ID issued by the state of Virginia, uh uh which they'd obtained through the illegal immigrant day worker network that they were running out of the parking lot in the uh at the uh where was it?
The seven eleven in uh in in Falls Church, Virginia.
In Falls Church, Virginia.
Uh so there are the problem here is not, and that was actually the same uh business.
If if, for example, the woman at the to go back to this Ahmed Rassam, the Millennium Bomber at the British Columbia uh Washington State border, if that woman there had taken out her loop and her UV glass and examined Ahmed Rassam's uh passport, she would have let him go through.
Because he had a valid Canadian passport obtained with fraudulent ID, just as the four nine eleven guys in Virginia uh had had valid Virginia ID fraudulently obtained.
Ahmed Rassam had a valid Canadian passport fraudulently re uh fraudulently obtained.
So we so if she'd done the TSA thing of examining examining it with the jewelers loop and the UV glass, he would have got across the border and blown up uh uh LAX, blown up an international airport.
Uh instead she looked him in the eyes and exercised human judgment.
And as I'm looking down at the bald patch of uh of the TSA agent with his little loop screwed into his eye like a diamond jeweler that uh some desperate p uh American who's been foreclosed on by the collapsed property market and all the rest of it, taking her beloved possessions uh to the porn store to see if she can get a couple of hundred dollars to keep her going for an extra month.
This guy, the TSA agent with the thing screwed in his eye.
Not once did he look any of us in the eye and reach a human judgment about it.
We're profiling things.
We are inviting disaster.
Just as the brain dead devotion to ancient 1970s hijack procedures brought disaster on September 11th, 2001.
We're we're uh we're setting ourselves up for disaster now.
Uh that guy in Vermont didn't look me in the eye and he didn't look anybody else in the eye.
None of them look you in the eye.
And you know why?
Because all they see, if they ever make the mistake of catching your eye, is complete contempt for them and their pointless and stupid procedures looking back at them.
So they avoid looking at you and instead they peer through their stupid magnifiers and they amble back and forth, barking out the same rote sentences about the three-ounce containers of liquids and gels as if they're drill sergeants, bored drill sergeants, ambling up and down the line saying the same thing over and over.
But they never look at you.
Why?
Because they're not looking for terrorists.
They're looking for things.
And that's the craziness of the bureaucratization.
uh of of the war on terror in a way it exemplifies everything that has gone wrong with the United States the the sclerosis of bureaucratization the the ever swollen lines to get through to the sterile area they can make the whole air and and eventually you know if you're at O'Hare on a Friday afternoon and the line is backed up and backed up and backed up and you're a terrorist, why do you need to get into the sterile area?
You can kill hundreds of people just blowing up the line to get into the sterile area.
And then maybe they'll make the whole airport the sterile area and then maybe you just blow up the cars as they're trying to get in to uh cross the perimeter to get in into the sterile area.
And then maybe they'll make the whole of the lower 48 a sterile area and believe it or not uh then when people are are are offshore in ships waiting to be processed to get into Ellis Island and and and secure admission to to the continental United States they'll blow up Ellis Island.
You can't win by profiling things.
All you can do is bureaucratize the hell out of the American economy.
Add up all the hours that are lost by this complete waste of time.
Add up all the economic inconvenience imposed on the US economy by the bureaucratization on the war on terror.
It's a national disgrace and it's worrying to me.
It's worrying to me that we need a three year old kid to pull the don't tread on me shtick and say uh and say quit touching me.
Where is the American spirit?
Where is the Republican spirit?
You know, as I s as I said an hour ago George the Third would not have done this to you.
This is incompatible the idea that everybody's body parts can be fondled by government bureaucrats.
You don't need where else do you need to go after that?
If everybody's body parts uh you don't need a warrant.
I wouldn't mind it I wouldn't mind if the guy showed up and he said uh look I've got I've got the judge has signed this warrant admitting me uh to your fruit of the loom I'd say okay okay that's uh well wait a minute it says briefs here and I'm wearing my boxes today so you better go back to that judge and get another piece of paper.
I wouldn't mind if it was all full of paperwork like everything else in America but no you're just expected to drop 'em when uh the uh when the federal official wants to get his hands in there.
Headline headline airport staff exposed women's breasts and laughed this is Amarillo, Amarillo, Texas 23 year old woman uh exposed they exposed her breaths breasts to everyone in the sterile area.
I bet it suddenly felt less sterile.
When you've got topless women walking around, everybody laughed.
Everybody laughed.
Do you know who's really laughing at this?
The Al-Qaeda guys back in Yemen and back in Waziristan, thinking, look at what the Americans are doing to themselves.
We don't even need to blow anything up anymore.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for rush.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network across the fruit ed and...
Gropehead plain let us go to Jay in Stillwater Maine.
Jane Jay you are live on the uh EIB network.
Hi Mark good to speak with you again.
You may recall I'm your neighbor up here in Maine who used to spend his summers in college shoveling red hot lobsters into the laps of tourists where It's always fun to do that.
Now you can get a summer job putting your hands in the same laps of those terrorists.
Yeah, yeah, but you couldn't, you couldn't you can't drop a live lobster into uh into the lap of Ahmed Ghilani in uh in Gitmo.
If you if a waiter accidentally did that, serving him up the big Ramadan banquet, uh you'd never hear the end of it from the ACLU and all the other guys.
Uh where is still where is still water in Maine?
Uh we're very we're very close to the University of Maine here, uh central Maine, about somehow north of Bangor.
Right.
Oh okay.
Okay.
Great to have great uh great to have you with us.
Where do you fly out of?
Portland?
Uh Bangor, uh BIA.
We have the the wonderful main troop greeters here at the IEA that uh welcome and uh and shake hands with those who are who are going overseas to protect our freedoms.
Uh it's a great tradition that they started up here back during the uh the uh Gulf War uh uh the desert uh storm war.
Yeah, that uh it's it's something that uh all people from Bangor are very proud of.
They do great work there.
It's it's nice to see.
I wanna I think the thing is uh but again again there's no end to the insanity with uh TSA.
Uh these guys returning from Iraq, and they found that they uh they were in uniform because they'd just come straight from uh I think you fly from Baghdad to Germany and then Germany back to the US, and these guys were going through the airport, changing flights, I think in Dallas, and uh and the and the TSA guy looks at these guys in uniforms straight from Iraq and detects traces of uh uh uh of uh uh uh of uh ammunition uh on their clothing.
Because they're soldiers.
Because they're soldiers.
But that doesn't work anymore.
You can't give normal responses to to American officialdom anymore.
That doesn't work.
That's not a that's not a mitigating circumstance.
Well, I've just been serving my country, I've been being shot at uh in i in Iran.
No, they wouldn't let him board the plane because showed up traces, traces of uh of uh uh uh uh uh uh uh of firearms ammunition on his clothing.
Uh Jay, what did what what did you what what was your point, Jay?
You wanted to talk about this uh TSA stuff?
Well, exactly.
I wanted to call in and just kind of sum up the last couple of weeks.
Uh there's an old expression Irish expression that is bad news comes in threes.
In the last two weeks, Mr. Obama has badly lost an election.
Uh he's blown a relatively easy trade deal with the South Koreans and he's carelessly allowed the full conviction of a minute terrorist to slip right through his fingers.
Now, my my question to you, Mark, is do you think these Obama hits are going to keep on coming?
D do you think this string of failure will never end now that he can't even count on uh on uh complicit Congress and uh and a media that uh seems to be backed into the corner?
Well, what you what you have to think about there is you have to look at it from his point of view.
He regards himself as a transformational leader.
So he doesn't man ma he doesn't he doesn't measure success or failure in the same way.
I I don't think he's losing a moment's sleep, for example, about this guy getting off in 284 murder convictions, because he doesn't care about it.
He doesn't take uh the war on terror seriously.
He thinks it's an outmoded Bush template uh from the early part of the twenty-first century that is no long-term relevance to the United States.
On the things that he thinks have long-term relevance, he thinks he's a great success.
He uh he he th he thinks uh health his health care plan is transformative.
And he's right on that.
He and he's betting, he's made a bet, and uh Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reader made a bet, too.
And talk about failure coming in threes.
There's Harry Nancy and Barack.
Yeah, you got it right there.
But the uh but they have uh they've made a bet that the Republicans will not have the guts to drive a stake through the heart of Obamacare.
That they will not have a uh the guts to drive a stake through the heart of uh the financial regulation.
That in other words, everything that was accomplished in the last two years will sit there, stay in place and be waiting for them to use when in the fullness of time uh they are eventually uh returned to power.
They they they think very careful.
Why is that a bad bet?
After all, if you go to look back at the Carter era, a discredited one-term president, yet nothing from that.
Department of Energy, Federal Department of Education, uh little it'sy bitsy nothing things like the National Endowment for the Arts and all the rest of it.
Republicans have never rolled back all this talk about Juan Williams.
Oh, maybe we should defund NPR.
Do you honestly Really think uh that they're g they're gonna they're gonna defund NPR.
The the uh Obama has made a bet that the Republicans will wimp out uh of doing anything against these things and his transformative agenda will remain in pa in in place.
Thanks thanks very much for your call, Jay, in uh in Stillwater, Maine.
He's thinking that Obama's had three big pieces of bad news.
But Obama's playing a long-term game here.
The the Democrats are interested in fundamental transformation of American society, and they're betting that Republicans, uh, whatever happens in January, Republicans are not gonna be able to drive a stake through the heart of what they accomplished in the last two years.
Mark Stein InfoRush on the EIB network, lots more still to come.
Yes, great to be with you.
Uh Rush yesterday said I would have a ton of football stories in the stack of stuff today.
And uh I don't know w is he testing me there?
Uh football is uh uh football's the one with all the guys in the helmets, is that right?
Ma I'm just trying to assimilate here.
It's the one it's the one where they do uh uh take me out to the uh ball game in the seventh inning Pat Down.
Is uh that's uh that's football, is it?
I'm just I'm just trying to assimilate here.
Don't want to don't wanna, you know.
Remember that remember that time uh we had the guy to uh uh on uh called up uh uh the Australian guy who was talking to me with about cricket, uh because I think uh England had just won the ashes.
And uh I think we lost a record number of affiliates in the course of that phone call.
I think three hundred affiliates cancelled the show.
They were saying, uh get us anything, get us uh old tapes of the Janine Garofalo show from Air America.
We'll take anything right now.
So I think uh I think uh Rush was just trying to do a little bit of misdirection there when he said I'd have tons of football stories for you today.
Let us go to Pamela in Toledo, Ohio.
Pamela, it is great to have you on the show with us.
Mark, I enjoy listening to you so much, and I think you're wonderful.
You feel a butt coming on, don't you?
What do you mean I feel a butt?
You make me sound like a TSA agent.
I I don't feel I have no intention.
It would be impertinent of me to feel your butt, even in the rhetorical sense, Pamela.
But go on, uh lay it on me anyway.
What do you gotta say?
Where's the where's the I I I love you your wonderful butt.
I've heard this.
Well, let me say I I love you and um I and I I have to admit I feel the same way about uh back and rush and nearly everyone that I listen to.
Right.
I'm beginning to wonder what is the point then?
You had the last caller who said, Well, do you think that the Republicans will be able to do this or that?
And it seems that no matter what we do, no matter how much we try, no matter how many victories we may win, which you know them November was a pretty stunning victory electorally.
All I keep hearing is it's not gonna make any difference.
It's not gonna work, nothing is gonna change, nothing is gonna h so then I start wondering, well then what am I doing here?
Why don't I just cash everything out and you know, just live fat, dumb and happy as long as I can, and you know, when healthcare comes in, I won't get the treatment if I need it.
And what is the point of even trying and fighting?
Well, uh I'll t I'll tell you I'll tell you my w where I think it obviously, you know, r rush rush might uh w would uh would give you a different answer.
But I'll t I'll tell you mine, and that is that I've I've lived in I've lived in in countries uh that that have done all this stuff.
So I've seen so I've seen where it leads, and that's why I th that's why when when uh Obama was elected and people were saying, Oh, he's another Jimmy Carter, uh I was I was at pains to say no, it's way worse than that.
And you uh you know that thing about uh well everything just gets there's that famous heritage graph showing uh showing federal spending from nineteen sixty-five to two thousand and seven.
And it's a straight line, goes straight up.
Doesn't make any difference whether it's a Republican in the White House, Democrat in the White House, uh Democrats in Congress, Republicans in Congress, bit of both, one or the other.
It just a straight line, straight up.
So obviously what we do has, I think, made a difference in the sense that things might be even more spectacularly worse if i if if we hadn't been uh you know, if if if if if if rush hadn't been there, if President Reagan hadn't been there, i if a whole bunch of people in the conservative movement hadn't been there, things might have been even worse.
But the trouble is now that we are approaching, I think, a rendezvous with uh with destiny, and that we we are doing terrible things uh to America's next uh generation by by this multi-trillion dollar spenderholic binge and all I want to do I'm not I'm don't live in despair but I I've I've lived in a lot of places and for me this is the end of the line.
I don't want to do what you said, you know, just clear out my bank account, pack pack up and move off somewhere else.
This is my last stand.
And I don't want America to make the same mistakes uh the the many other uh once wealthy, prosperous uh uh uh nations made.
Uh they've all gone down this path before.
So I want I want the the newly elected figures uh from from a couple of weeks ago to understand uh that this isn't isn't just about a bit of tweaking this calls for serious course correction and with serious course correction this is the greatest country in the world.
If you get serious course correction, there's nothing that the United States can't do.
But it has str it has structural defects.
Have you seen these riots in California Oh yeah I and and and Mark I you know I understand what you say but I guess what I'm concerned about is that sometimes under the guise of being helpful and and alerting people to what's going on it can end up being demoralizing rather than inspiring.
No I don't I don't want it to be dem I don't want it to be demoralizing.
You understand what I mean Yeah no no I I and I I understand I understand what you're saying that if if if we're all doomed then what's the point?
But we're not all doomed.
We're not we're not all doomed and and the way to avoid the way to avoid doom is to recognize that the that that we that there's certain structural changes need to be made.
I I mentioned I brought up these like uh these rioters in California who look like they look very little different from the people who uh from the the pampered youths rioting in France.
But they're Californians so it's closer to home, right?
So when Californian students start looking like French students, uh you ought to be worried because that's that that could be your future.
Who are these students?
Like 28 year old conflict studies students they're part of the uh 28 year old peace studies students people who in in most of human history would have been regarded as uh being in early middle age and they're studying completely worthless disciplines and demanding that a bankrupt state like California go on paying for them.
The it isn't very difficult.
In 1940, the average American had an eighth grade education you go back to that America Pamela they built everything that's great about America everything, all the innovations, the automobiles, the motion pictures, the great economic energy of America they were that was built by eighth grade America and eighth grade America then went on to win the second world war.
Eighth grade America built America, eighteenth grade America or 28th grade America or however old these middle aged students riding in California now are driving it off a cliff.
Now I I don't think that's hopeless.
But in the end, in the end, if you don't you have to do something you have you have to look not just at electing a guy with an R after his name every second November, you also have to look at rolling back the absurdity of having uh 28-year-old peace studies students rioting at public expense in a bankrupt jurisdiction like California.
And I guess Mark at the point what's starting to then I guess what I'm starting to wonder is I I I think you can analyze things to the point where you end up becoming paralyzed and I wonder, okay, I know what needs to be done now I want to know the how do we do it.
Okay.
Well I think I think is I think here is uh I think here is how we do it.
First of all, you stop uh you stop government by regulation.
I would like for example if you look at the Obamacare bill uh where it the reason we have three thousand page bills and that is why uh congressmen who promised to read the bills are important but there should be a limit to the size of the bill because the only reason you have three thousand page bills is because there's no longer equality before the law.
Then it's all about uh opt-outs and exemptions for people who happen to have Obama's ear when you don't.
So all the vagaries in that are let loose by that bill, the Republicans if they cannot drive a stake through Obamacare uh yet should at least prevent uh the regulatory authorities from massively expanding the regulatory powers of the state.
For example the the IRS guy says well we didn't actually provide for enforcement mechanisms uh in the obligation to uh make health care arrangements that meet the approval of the federal government there.
So we're just gonna we're if you haven't made healthcare arrangements that meet the approval of the federal government, we will simply withhold your your uh your tax return.
If you were due a tax return, but you haven't made f health care arrangements that meet the approval of the federal government, we will uh we will withhold that.
He invented that.
No legislator legislated that.
He invented that out of his head.
So you ha you have to demand that Republican congressmen actually say no, no, we make the laws.
The people's representatives make the laws.
You, Mr. IRS bureaucrat, do not invent laws out of your head.
And uh and so that's where the big principles are important, Pamela, because these guys uh the the only way, the only way we're gonna stop this stuff is if the uh people's representatives behave like the people's representatives and insist uh that this unelected the unelected bureaucracy does not simply get to invent laws out of whole cloth, which is happens with the TSA and happens with the IRS and happens with Obamacare and everything else.
So that's that's the practical means through is the people have to be able to hold not only their representatives to account, but the vast broader government apparatus to account.
It's not about being hopeless, but it's just about girding your loins, as Joe Biden would say, uh for the size of the task.
It's not i you know, you gird your loins for the pat down at O'Hare Airport, but girding your loins for this structural uh f for for recapturing uh the uh the the American idea is is uh is is a bit is a bit more different on the general scale of loin girding, Pamela.
But it doesn't mean your your your loins are ungirdable, so hopelessness should not set in.
Hopelessness should not set in.
There, have I have I felt your butt sufficiently, as you Mark, in my age I'm grateful for anyone to do it.
Oh come to come to the airport with me.
We'll we'll we'll fly down, we'll fly.
Look, I've got so many frequent flyer miles.
We can we can be upgraded to the two TSA agents special, Pamela.
We'll have a we'll have a great time.
You you come fly with me.
We'll have a terrific weekend.
Thank you.
Thank you for your call.
Don't stay hopeless, Pamela.
Don't stay hopeless.
There is hope, but it is about reclaiming the American idea and preventing uh sclerosis by bureaucracy, of which the TSA, Obamacare, the IRS, they're all symptoms of the same disease.
Lots more still to come.
Mark Stein on the EIB network.
Rush returns Monday to take you through to Thanksgiving.
Uh Luke Luke from uh Richardson in Texas uh sent me an email saying he was he was struck by the way uh Obama President Obama said he has to borrow seven hundred billion dollars in order uh in order to afford the Bush tax cuts.
So he's so so uh Luke is uh Luke is uh saying that the real problem here, the real problem here is not that the TSA guy has his hands in your pants, but that President Obama has his hand in your pants.
And he does.
He has he's like an octopus.
He's got hands in all our pants.
Let's go to Patricia in uh Indiana.
Patricia, you're live on the EIB network.
Mark Stein, I am so excited to speak to you.
No, yeah, yeah.
That's what Pamela said.
There's always a but.
There's always a but.
You know, no, no, no.
I am a I have to tell you, I am a fifty-five-year-old five-foot-one Asian woman.
Really?
I was just I was just about to put that ad in the back of the village voice here in New York.
That's uh that's that's perfect.
Well, no, and I I apologize.
I am not sophisticated.
I am not an intellectual, unlike the other callers that you've had.
So uh forgive me if I'm just very simple in the way I speak to you.
But my question is, why is it so difficult for the Lame Doc Congress to even decide uh whether or not to extend the tax cuts.
I I was telling the screener that it's almost like, you know, waiting day to day.
It's like a waterboarding, a drip-drip-drip.
We just want to know already.
You know, well, the reason they can't, it's very simple.
The reason they can is that the Bush tax cuts, Patricia, are uh are one uh one of those bedrock uh one of those bedrock issues for the Democrats.
Ever since they were passed, a decade ago in 2001, uh they they have been regarded as one of one of the left's handiest cudgels with which to be, oh Bush, he gave tax cuts to the richest one percent and he ran up this huge deficit, and it's all Bush tax cuts.
Uh why don't the rich pay their fair share?
So to concede on this, I mean, this is not true.
This is completely false.
Nobody, not even left-wing governments in Scandinavia raise taxes in an economy like this.
But uh because these tax cuts were passed, remember they were only passed very very narrowly.
Do you remember Jim Jeffords, the guy who uh jumped from the Republican Party to the Democrats because he wasn't invited by the White House to the Vermont teacher of the year reception.
By the way, these are the things on which on which the fate of the Republic hangs.
I hate to depress Pablo any more.
But who knew?
The Vermont Teacher of the Year reception changed the course of history.
And uh so uh Jim Jeffords uh it was passed very narrowly, and the only reason they got people like Jim Jeffords on board for that was because they put this expiry date on.
And to a politician, nine years, uh eight years, nine years, ten years, that's not a long time away.
And so the left has been demonizing these tax cuts ever since then as grossly irresponsible.
Uh of course they're not.
Of course they're not.
The issue the issue isn't the taxes.
You cannot tax Americans enough to pay for the level at which we're spending.
You can't grow the economy enough.
I said the last time I sat in this chair, I pointed out that by the year 2015, the interest payments on America's public debt will be covering the entire cost of the Chinese military.
In other words, whenever anybody goes on about Chinese militarization, these new missiles they're buying, these new rockets, this new these new ships for the uh for the for the Blue Water Navy and for the uh the dominance they want in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
Whenever anybody goes on about the Chinese military build-up, who's paying for it?
You are, you're paying for it with your taxes.
Because this government cannot, cannot uh raise enough to uh to spend uh uh f for for what it wants to spend.
It cannot raise enough money in the United States.
So it borrows money from China, and so in the end, we wind up paying for the Chinese armed forces.
That's why the tax cuts are not the issue.
The spending is the issue, Patricia.
Uh but the Democrats cannot cannot concede that.
They cannot concede that.
Uh in fairness to the debt commission, the debt commission understands this.
Uh the the they have proposed uh a simplifying the tax code, which I would be in favor of, and spreading it wider so that more people pay less tax.
Uh what the Democrats want to do is to have an ever ever narrower band of people at the top uh and in the middle class paying more and more taxes, and at the lower levels more and more people opting out.
You cannot tax people enough, you cannot grow the economy enough to cover spending at this level.
The big problem in the entire Western world is is that soft Western populations have voted themselves a lifestyle they're not willing to pay for.
So to pay for it, we borrow money from the Chinese, and the Chinese are happy to lend it to us because they're spending it on new missiles, new ships, uh, and they figure that in in effect uh a soft decadent Western world is is paying for the Chinese domination in the years to come.
But for the Democrats to concede on this, the day they cave on on the Bush tax cuts, and the day they say no, all of them can stay in place and we're not going to let them expire.
Uh that will be such a climb down from the cheap, easy, worthless and false demonization they made of these tax cuts for the first ten years of this uh of this century.
Thanks very much for your call, Patricia.
Lots more still to come.
An official message from the government of the United States, quote, travelers should know that while pies are permitted through the security checkpoint, uh numerous other products such as gravy, creamy dips and spreads and salsa are not.
So you can have pie.
Pie is permitted by the government of the United States, but pie a la mode is a national security threat.
This is these are the subtle distinctions.
These are the subtle distinctions that the government of the United States and its vast bureaucracy.
Experts, you know the the will what they always said when Obama Obama was elected, technocrats, experts.
Uh They have uh they have determined this.
By the way, by the way, there's no truth to the rumor that you can get pregnant from an enhanced pat-down.
So you don't have to worry about that.
You can't get pregnant from an enhanced pat-down.
You can get chlamydia, of course, if he hasn't changed his gloves in the last hour.
Uh, but don't worry about that because the uh the class action suit will be bankrupting Obamacare uh a decade or two down the line.
This is Mark Stein, Infrarush on the EIB network.
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