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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 Anchorman is away today and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in.
They cannot pat me down.
I am unpat-downable.
Rush will be back Monday.
I'm going to be here tomorrow.
I don't know what we're doing tomorrow because Rush did Open Line Friday on Wednesday yesterday.
So I don't know what that means.
We're going to be doing tomorrow.
Maybe we'll do Wego Wednesday on Friday or something.
I don't know.
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 24-hour period.
This will be, it will be interesting to see whether the TSA will be able to handle that number of pat downs.
Just to go back to something that was said, I think it was Dale in the last hour, where we were talking about psychological profiling, essentially judging people as individuals when they present themselves towards you.
Because 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 that we haven't quite thought of.
For example, the first jihadist to put a bomb in, say, the breast implants, gel implants of his wife, then you should wait to see what the lines are going to be like at like LAX, for example, when they're taken there and they're discovering they're going to have to pat down every single breast implant in America or they're going to have to scan every breast implant in America.
So at the moment we're just profiling things.
We're profiling shoes.
We're profiling liquids.
The very first time I guest hosted for Rush, I'd flown in from Auckland, New Zealand, and I tried to buy a little snow globe for my daughter.
And 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, Oslo to Islamabad, or from Auckland to Hong Kong, or from Hamburg to Suva, Fiji, none of this stuff matters.
But it's only because it's the United States, the most powerful nation on earth, that we have to undergo this.
So she said, no, no, snow globes are on the prohibited list.
Because even though we were inside 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, 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 sparkly snow stuff twinkled down and fell on the attractive New Zealand sheep.
But I could have taken that into the men's room and weaponized the snow globe, weaponized the snow globe, and replaced the sparkly spangly snowflakes with whatever it's called, PTA explosive, and weaponize the snow globe.
So snow globes are on the you can't take a snow globe into the United States of America.
A lady just wrote to me by email and said that she'd been going through the security thing 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.
It is the murky gray area.
At what point does the peach turn from a solid into something, you know, 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 fight 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 so 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 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.
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.
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 have her 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 security.
So I think it was Dale was saying, why don't we profit like we did with the Millennium Bomber who was sweaty and shifty, and that's how they caught him.
You know, I said I was at Burlington Airport, Vermont.
I don't want to beat up on Burlington Airport, Vermont, because it's, 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 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 TSA guy examined my driver's license and he examined it and examined it and examined it.
And then he examined it some more.
And he had what are those things that diamond jewelers?
A loop.
You know, one of those magnifying glasses that the professional jewelers use to examine diamonds for any surface blemish or 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, 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 loving care, I was overcome by a sudden urge to point out that nobody has ever blown up a U.S. airliner with a fake driver's license.
Who needs to?
You don't need to blow up a U.S. airliner with a fake driver's license when it's the easiest thing in the world to blow up a U.S. airliner with a real driver's license.
On September 11th, 2001, four of the terrorists boarded the flight with genuine valid picture ID issued by the state of Virginia, which they'd obtained through the illegal immigrant day worker network that they were running out of the parking lot in the at the where was it the 7-Eleven in Falls Church, Virginia, in Falls Church, Virginia.
So The problem here is not, and that was actually the same business, if, for example, the woman at the, to go back to this Ahmed Rassam, the Millennium Bomber at the British Columbia, Washington state border, if that woman there had taken out her loop and her UV glass and examined Ahmed Rassam's passport, she would have let him go through.
Because he had a valid Canadian passport obtained with fraudulent ID, just as the four 9-11 guys in Virginia had valid Virginia ID fraudulently obtained.
Ahmed Rassam had a valid Canadian passport fraudulently obtained.
So if she'd done the TSA thing of examining it with the jeweler's loop and the UV glass, he would have got across the border and blown up LAX, blown up an international airport.
Instead, she looked him in the eyes and exercised human judgment.
And as I'm looking down at the bald patch of the TSA agent with his little loop screwed into his eye like a diamond jeweler that some desperate American who's been foreclosed on by the collapsed property market and all the rest of it, taking her beloved possessions 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 setting ourselves up for disaster now.
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 of the war on terror.
In a way, it exemplifies everything that has gone wrong with the United States.
The sclerosis of bureaucratization, the ever-swollen lines to get through to the sterile area.
They can make the whole area.
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 cross the perimeter to get into the sterile area.
And then maybe they'll make the whole of the lower 48 a sterile area.
And believe it or not, then when people are offshore in ships waiting to be processed to get into Ellis Island and secure admission 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 U.S. economy by the bureaucratization and 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 stick and say, quit touching me.
Where is the American spirit?
Where is the Republican spirit?
You know, as I said an hour ago, George III 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, you don't need a warrant.
I wouldn't mind if the guy showed up and he said, look, I've got the judge has signed this warrant admitting me to your fruit of the loom.
I'd say, okay, okay, that's 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 them 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 exposed they exposed her 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.
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 head and grope head plane.
Let us go to Jay in Stillwater, Maine.
Jane, Jay, you are live on the 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 terrorists.
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 the lap of Ahmed Ghilani in Gitmo.
If a waiter accidentally did that, serving him up the big Ramadan banquet, you'd never hear the end of it from the ACLU and all the other guys.
Where is Stillwater in Maine?
We're very close to the University of Maine here, central Maine, about 10 miles north of Bangor.
Right.
Okay.
Okay.
Great to have you with us.
Where do you fly out of?
Portland?
Bangor, BIA.
We have the wonderful Maine troop breeders here at the IAA that welcome and shake hands with those who are going overseas to protect our freedoms.
It's a great tradition that they set it up here back during the Gulf War, the Desert Storm War.
It's something that all people from Bangor are very proud of.
They do great work there.
It's nice to see.
I think the thing is, but again, again, there's no end to the insanity with TSA.
These guys returning from Iraq, and they found that they were in uniform because they'd just come straight from, I think you fly from Baghdad to Germany and then Germany back to the U.S.
And these guys were going through the airport changing flights, I think, in Dallas.
And the TSA guy looks at these guys in uniforms straight from Iraq and detects traces of ammunition on their clothing because they're soldiers.
Because they're soldiers.
But that doesn't work anymore.
You can't give normal responses to American officialdom anymore.
That doesn't work.
That's not a mitigating circumstance.
Well, I've just been serving my country.
I've been being shot at in Iran.
No, they wouldn't let him board the plane because showed up traces of firearms ammunition on his clothing.
Jay, what was your point, Jay?
You wanted to talk about this TSA stuff?
Well, exactly.
I wanted to call in and just kind of sum up the last couple of weeks.
There's an old Irish expression that is bad news comes in threes.
In the last two weeks, Mr. Obama has badly lost an election.
He's blown a relatively easy trade deal with the South Koreans and has carelessly allowed the full conviction of admitted terrorist to slip right through his fingers.
Now, my question to you, Mark, is do you think these Obama hits are going to keep on coming?
Do you think this string of failure will never end now that he can't even count on a complicit Congress and a media that seems to be backed into the corner?
Well, 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 measure success or failure in the same way.
I don't think he's losing a moment's sleep, for example, about this guy getting off on 284 Murler convictions because he doesn't care about it.
He doesn't take the war on terror seriously.
He thinks it's an outmoded Bush template from the early part of the 21st century that has 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 thinks his healthcare plan is transformative.
And he's right on that.
And he's betting, he's made a bet.
And Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have made a bet, too.
And talk about failure coming in threes.
Harry, Nancy, and Barack.
There you go right there.
But 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 the guts to drive a stake through the heart of 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, they are eventually returned to power.
They think very, 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, little itsy-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 that they're going to defund NPR?
Obama has made a bet that the Republicans will wimp out of doing anything against these things and his transformative agenda will remain in place.
Thanks very much for your call, Jay, 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 Democrats are interested in fundamental transformation of American society, and they're betting that Republicans, whatever happens in January, Republicans are not going to be able to drive a stake through the heart of what they accomplished in the last two years.
Mark Stein, InforRush on the EIB network.
Lots more still to come.
Yes, great to be with you.
Rush yesterday said I would have a ton of football stories in the stack of stuff today.
I don't know what is he testing me there?
Football's the one with all the guys in the helmets.
Is that right?
I'm just trying to assimilate here.
It's the one where they do take me out to the ball game in the seventh inning.
Pat Down.
That's football, is it?
I'm just trying to assimilate here.
Don't want to, you know.
Remember that time we had the guy called up the Australian guy who was talking to me about cricket?
Because I think England had just won the ashes.
And I think we lost a record number of affiliates in the course of that phone call.
I think 300 affiliates canceled the show.
They were saying, get us anything.
Get us old tapes of the Janine Garofilo show from Air America.
We'll take anything right now.
So I think 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 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, lay it on me anyway.
What are you going to say?
Where's the I love you?
You're wonderful, but.
I've heard this.
Let me say I love you and.
Okay.
And I have to admit I feel the same way about Beck and Rush and nearly everyone that I listen to.
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 November was a pretty stunning victory electorally, all I keep hearing is it's not going to make any difference.
It's not going to work.
Nothing is going to change.
Nothing is going to happen.
So then I start wondering, well, then what am I doing here?
Why don't I just cash everything out and just live fat, dumb, and happy as long as I can?
And when health care comes in, I won't get the treatment if I need it.
And what is the point of even trying and fighting?
Well, I'll tell you my way I think it.
Obviously, Rush would give you a different answer, but I'll tell you mine, and that is that I've lived in countries that have done all this stuff.
So I've seen where it leads.
And that's why when Obama was elected and people were saying, oh, he's another Jimmy Carter.
I was at pains to say, no, it's way worse than that.
And you know that thing about, well, everything just gets, there's that famous heritage graph showing federal spending from 1965 to 2007.
And it's a straight line.
It goes straight up.
Doesn't make any difference whether it's a Republican in the White House, Democrat in the White House, Democrats in Congress, Republicans in Congress, bit of both, one or the other.
It's 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 we hadn't been, you know, if Rush hadn't been there, if President Reagan hadn't been there, 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 destiny and that we are doing terrible things to America's next generation by this multi-trillion dollar spenderholic binge.
And all I want to do, don't live in despair, but 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 up and move off somewhere else.
This is my last stand.
And I don't want America to make the same mistakes that many other once wealthy, prosperous nations made.
They've all gone down this path before.
So I want the newly elected figures from a couple of weeks ago to understand that this isn't just about a bit of tweaking.
This calls for serious cost correction.
And with serious cost correction, this is the greatest country in the world.
If you get serious cost correction, there's nothing that the United States can't do.
But it has structural defects.
Have you seen these riots in California?
Oh, yeah, and Mark, I understand what you say, but I guess what I'm concerned about is that sometimes under the guise of being helpful and alerting people to what's going on, it can end up being demoralizing rather than inspiring.
No, I don't want it to be demoralizing.
You understand what I mean?
Yeah, no, no, I understand what you're saying, that if we're all doomed, then what's the point?
But we're not all doomed.
We're not all doomed.
And the way to avoid doom is to recognize that certain structural changes need to be made.
I mentioned, I brought up these rioters in California, who look like they look very little different from the people who, from 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, you ought to be worried, because that could be your future.
Who are these students?
Like 28-year-old conflict studies students.
They're part of the 28-year-old peace studies students.
People who in most of human history would have been regarded as 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.
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.
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.
18th grade America or 28th grade America or however old these middle-aged students rioting in California are driving it off a cliff.
Now, 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 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 28-year-old peace studies students rioting at public expense in a bankrupt jurisdiction like California.
I guess, Mark, at the point what's starting to, then I guess what I'm starting to wonder is 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 here is how we do it.
First of all, you stop you stop government by regulation.
I would like, for example, if you look at the Obamacare bill, where the reason we have 3,000-page bills, and that is why 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 3,000-page bills is because there's no longer equality before the law.
Then it's all about opt-outs and exemptions for people who happen to have Obama's ear when you don't.
So all the vagaries that are let loose by that bill, the Republicans, if they cannot drive a stake through Obamacare yet, should at least prevent the regulatory authorities from massively expanding the regulatory powers of the state.
For example, the IRS guy says, well, we didn't actually provide for enforcement mechanisms in the obligation to make healthcare arrangements that meet the approval of the federal government there.
So we're just going to, if you haven't made health care arrangements that meet the approval of the federal government, we will simply withhold your tax return.
If you were due a tax return, but you haven't made health care arrangements that meet the approval of the federal government, we will withhold that.
He invented that.
No legislator legislated that.
He invented that out of his head.
So 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 so that's where the big principles are important, Pamela, because these guys, the only way, the only way we're going to stop this stuff is if the people's representatives behave like the people's representatives and insist that this unelected, the unelected bureaucracy does not simply get to invent laws out of whole cloth, which happens with the TSA and happens with the IRS and happens with Obamacare and everything else.
So that's the practical means through.
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, for the size of the task.
It's not, you know, you gird your loins for the pat down at O'Hare Airport, but girding your loins for the structural for recapturing the American idea is a bit more different on the general scale of loin girding, Pamela.
But it doesn't mean your loins are ungirdable.
So hopelessness should not set in.
Hopelessness should not set in.
There, have I felt your butt sufficiently?
Mark, at my age, I'm grateful for anyone to do it.
Oh, come to come to the airport with me.
We'll fly down.
We'll fly.
Look, I've got so many frequent flyer miles.
We can be upgraded to the 2TSA agent special, Pamela.
We'll have a great time.
You come fly with me.
We'll have a terrific weekend.
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 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.
Luke from Richardson in Texas sent me an email saying he was struck by the way Obama, President Obama, said he has to borrow $700 billion in order to afford the Bush tax cuts.
So Luke is 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's like an octopus.
He's got hands in all our pants.
Let's go to Patricia in Indiana.
Patricia, you're live on the EIB network.
Mark Stein, I am so excited to speak to you.
Oh, 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 55-year-old 5'1 Asian woman.
Really?
I was just about to put that ad in the back of the village voice here in New.
That's perfect.
Well, no, and I apologize.
I am not sophisticated.
I am not an intellectual unlike the other callers that you've had.
So 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 dog Congress to even decide whether or not to extend the top tax cuts?
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.
Well, the reason they can't, it's very simple.
The reason they can't is that the Bush tax cuts, Patricia, are one of those bedrock issues for the Democrats.
Ever since they were passed a decade ago in 2001, they have been regarded as one of the left's handiest cudgels with which to be, oh, Bush, he gave tax cuts to the richest 1% and he ran up this huge deficit.
It's all Bush tax cuts.
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 because these tax cuts were passed, remember they were only passed very narrowly.
Do you remember Jim Jeffords, the guy who 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 the fate of the Republic hangs.
I hate to depress Pablo anymore, but who knew?
The Vermont Teacher of the Year reception changed the course of history.
And so Jim Jeffords, 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, 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.
Of course they're not.
Of course they're not.
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, these new ships for the Blue Water Navy and for the dominance they want in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, whenever anybody goes on about the Chinese military buildup, who's paying for it?
You are.
You're paying for it with your taxes.
Because this government cannot, cannot raise enough to spend, 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.
But the Democrats cannot concede that.
They cannot concede that.
In fairness to the Debt Commission, the Debt Commission understands this.
They have proposed simplifying the tax code, which I would be in favor of, and spreading it wider so that more people pay less tax.
What the Democrats want to do is to have an ever narrower band of people at the top 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 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, and they figure that in effect, a soft, decadent Western world is paying for the Chinese domination in the years to come.
But for the Democrats to concede on this, the day they cave 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, that will be such a climb down from the cheap, easy, worthless, and false demonization they made of these tax cuts for the first 10 years 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, 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.
These are the subtle distinctions.
These are the subtle distinctions that the government of the United States and its vast bureaucracy, experts, you know what they always said when Obama was elected?
Technocrats, experts.
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.
But don't worry about that because the class action suit will be bankrupting Obamacare a decade or two down the line.
This is Mark Stein, Infra Rush on the EIB network.
I'll be here tomorrow.
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