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Dec. 22, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 22, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein.
Honored to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
But my stocking stuffer did get an enhanced pat down.
I'm from the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a it's a great program.
Guys like me get to come and study here, and uh in return, Timothy Geitner and Ben Bernanke get to intern at the Zimbabwean currency board.
It'll come in very useful.
Uh tis the Christmas season at the EIB network, or as I like to think of it, the uh the lame duck session of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
We we guest hosts.
We're like the don't ask, don't tell of the uh of the talk radio biz.
We can't serve openly.
We have to pretend to be someone we're not.
It's it's it's a tragedy.
Won't won't someone think of us once in a while?
Don't ask, don't tell of the radio business.
I'll be here tomorrow.
And then uh uh Christmas Eve, it's uh three hours of VIB approved Christmas music.
Is that is that right, Mike?
Uh Christmas Eve?
Three hour three hours.
Oh, be best best of Rush on Christmas uh Eve, and then Rush Rush Christmas three hours of EIB approved rush Christmas music uh on the uh on the weekend.
I ask uh Mike this every year whether my Christmas album is on the list of EIB approved Christmas music, is it, Mike?
Uh he's he's giving me that look again.
It's wonderful, isn't it?
The Charlie Wrangle Christmas album there, sure, that's fine, you know.
Nancy Pelosi roasts your chestnuts on her open fire.
Yeah, great, that's in high rotation.
Wonderful.
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Great to be with you.
On the first on the first day of Christmas, Rush Limbaugh gave to me a guest host in a pear tree.
Uh I I I don't wanna I don't want to start on too controversial, I know, but I can't I can't stand that song.
Can't stand it.
It wasn't funny in the twelfth century.
That Twelve Days of Christmas thing.
Even the parodies aren't funny, you know.
Uh it doesn't matter what you sing to that song, it's not funny.
Uh Obama Rebound analysis.
Oh b this is a whole category now at the Associated Press.
The the slug or whatever they call it at the top of the thing when it comes off the AP wire says AP US Obama rebound analysis.
There are so many Obama rebound analysis stories there.
It's a whole category at uh the Associated Press.
It's it's a whole genre.
There's probably already a pull it surprise for Obama rebound analysis.
Uh but this is the one, this is the up to the minute Obama rebound analysis uh from the uh Associated Press.
President Barack Obama is rebounding from his party's midterm drubbing with the kind of lame duck victory list any white house would want.
A tax deal, a landmark repeal of the ban on openly gay military service, and the prospect of a major nuclear treaty with Russia.
What did they have they left out anything there?
Oh, they've left out the um regulating the internet.
And uh w taking over the food.
Yeah, the food safety uh improvement bill.
The reason why they got a rush this uh uh new start treaty with uh with the Russians through in twenty minutes is because they spent three weeks talking about the Food Safety Improvement Act, which gives the federal government uh the power to regulate uh cookies at American grade schools.
So if you're having a bake school, uh having a bake sale uh for the fourth grade anywhere in the United States, it'll now be regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
I feel I feel safer already.
But anyway, because the Senate devoted so much time to that, uh they only had twenty minutes left uh to do this uh this whole uh nuclear treaty with uh with Russia business.
But this is this is the story now.
President Barack Obama bestrides the lame duck scene like a colossus.
He is the least lame duck in the history uh of American politics.
A spectacular rebound.
He he signed um Don't Ask, Don't Tell, uh just a couple of hours ago.
So uh maybe now we've uh addressed the most pressing military issue of the day.
We could like, you know, uh maybe win the war, something like that.
Would that be too much to us?
Maybe we could do that.
Now we've uh now we've got the most pressing military issue uh solved.
Sparta.
Sparta had gays in the military, and it seemed to work out uh pretty well for them.
They had entire legions of gays, regiments of gays.
Uh yeah, it's it's it's Mr. Snerdley points out that Sparta is not big on the scene today.
It's true they're not a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
That That's true.
And uh the successor state, Greece, uh, isn't in the best uh isn't in the best condition either.
But uh but uh but it worked well maybe that's because they're not as gay as they used to be.
Maybe if they'd stuck with the whole gay superpower thing, uh they'd still be uh they'd still be where they were.
But uh but uh I'm just thinking outside the box.
Here, maybe we should move to an all-gay military just to wind up the Taliban.
Just thinking outside the box.
Um anyway, anyway, it may be Christmas for you, but uh it's Easter for Obama.
The Messiah has risen from the dead.
Obama rebound analysis.
They went to the crypt, the crypt in which hope and change had been entombed and found that Nancy Pelosi and all the other rocks in his head had been rolled away and the savior had risen.
Obama rebound analysis.
So we'll do some Obama rebound analysis.
We'll do some uh analysis of the Obama rebound analysis in the course of today's show.
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But Obama is uh is thrilled, and the media are thrilled for him, as far as they're concerned, it's beginning to look a lot like Easter.
The Savior has risen.
Obama rebound analysis.
Uh Chris Christmas, Christmas, according to uh Al Gore, is uh when those of us in that particular faith tradition.
I love that expression, by the way, faith tradition, because one sign that you've got a faith tradition is if you don't use the expression faith tradition.
I mean, if you're like in Riyadh or Waziristan, uh the big shot imams don't say, oh, well, in our uh faith tradition, we believe in stoning the women and beheading the sodomites.
So but uh faith tradition, faith tradition.
Uh in in our faith tradition, according to Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1999, this is the time of year when, quote, we celebrate the birth of a homeless child.
Or as Al Gore put it in uh 1997, quote, two thousand years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child.
I love this about the Democrats.
I can't even get the famous bits of the Bible right.
Uh they weren't homeless, they couldn't get a hotel room.
They couldn't get a hotel room.
The gospel, according to St. Luke.
And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed, right?
Taxed.
And all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city.
So you couldn't just wait at home for them to send you the tax return and you fill it in and send off the check.
You had to go halfway across the country to give the tax and fill in the form in the city uh that you were born in.
And that is why uh they found themselves.
Joseph and Mary found themselves in Nazareth, couldn't get a hotel room, uh, and the only reason they had to sleep in the stable is because Dad had to step halfway across the country to pay his taxes in the town of his birth, which is the kind of uh bureaucratic nightmare that is so cockamamy.
The only wonder is that the Obama administration hasn't reintroduced it uh and added mandatory pat-downs from uh Janet Napolitano.
And don't even think of giving birth in a stable these days, because um I'm doing the show from New York City today, and in the state of New York, as I understand it, it's illegal to rent out your stable without applying for a livestock shelter change of use uh permit, and it's illegal under Obamacare uh to not have a temporary maternity ward for non-insured transients license.
Uh so had Mary been around uh in the year 2010, she'd have been giving birth to Jesus under a bridge on I-95.
But basically, this whole thing is the story of big government.
Big government.
Caesar Augustus had his census.
It's a big government story.
And as in the time of Caesar Augustus, we now have our census, and we'll talk about that in the hours ahead, too.
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Fascinating thing about this uh this new census.
Uh all the growth is uh is in states that either have low or no income tax.
Uh seven of the fastest growing states uh are states that have no income tax at all.
Uh of the other two, the only state to show any uh healthy growth in New England is the state with no income tax, New Hampshire, and similarly in its own region, South Dakota, also has no income tax.
Now, you think there's any do you think there's any connection, any possible connection between no income tax, Low taxation policies and healthy demographic growth.
You look at this uh great demographic swamp of New York, there's been basically no growth in population over the last forty years.
And the only people uh the population of New York is about a million more today than it was in 1970.
And I would imagine that uh that extra million are all either bureaucrats or dependents, because nobody who wants to do business uh no uh wants to wants to be in this state.
They're all uh draining to the Southwest, and the only exceptions uh to that rule are low-income tax or no income tax states like uh New Hampshire and South Dakota.
So we'll talk about the new census, as I'm sure they did on talk radio in the time of Caesar Augustus.
Uh and we'll also talk about this net neutrality thing, which uh Rush uh called yesterday, uh what was that, Mr. Snadley?
He called it net neutering, didn't he?
The the uh the the federal I mean uh net neutrality is what like a fantastic Orwellian phrase.
The government is basically isn't even bothering to go to any trouble now.
They're just like taking uh tr transparently uh words that used to have fixed meanings and just turning them on their heads.
So net neutrality now doesn't mean that the government i has uh is a disinterested party in the development of the internet, but that the government's gonna regulate it.
And you know Rush uh uh was uh talking about this new uh app for your iPhone and your iPad.
Did you understand this bit?
Did you know about this, uh, Mr. Snerdley, that the uh app the we're gonna have federally regulated apps now.
Under this new uh uh policy of the FCC, that the these three g these three guys, among the many highlights of this policy, they're going to federally regulate apps.
Apps is one of the last things in this country that are still working as it slides off the cliff, and the government uh cannot stand that, so we're gonna have federally regulated apps.
Now I don't really know.
I'm like Mr. Squaresville, I'm not even sure I know what an app is, but uh Rush seemed very well informed on the issue yesterday, and he was saying, you know, you go to Rush Limbaugh.com, you can download your new uh Rush Limbaugh app for your iPhone, your iPad and all that.
Do it today because the FCC uh has just brought in federally regulated apps, and you can bet your bottom dollar that the first app that will cease to function under the fed federal regulation of apps uh will be the Rush Limbaugh app.
So make the most of it and go to Rush Limbaugh.
Uh really?
Oh, right.
The rush the Rush app is already the number one app.
Well, that's why we need net neutrality.
There must be an the Janine Garofalo Air America app ought to have the same shot at being the number one app.
That's why we need federal regulation of apps.
I was fully support.
Let's get behind the the Bureau of App Regulation, because that's what we need.
It'll only be another 40, 70 billion.
Who knows what it is, but whatever it takes to have app neutrality across the fruited plain, uh we're behind it 100 percent.
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Just when you thought there wasn't anything left to regulate in this country, they decided to regulate your app.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Lots more to come.
Christmas at the EIB network and uh Mark Stein sitting in for Rush, 1800-282-2882.
Uh I'm I was reading this story uh this morning in the Daily Telegraph from Sydney, Australia.
Just a little thing someone sent me uh I clicked on the link and I started reading it, and it's like so many things in the world today.
It starts off kind of normal and kind of reasonable, and then like two or three paragraphs in, it just you realize the entire planet is bananas and there's nowhere to escape to.
Uh under a proposal from the powerful state government stay safe committee, and by the way, there's another Orwellian term.
That's like the net neutrality thing.
The powerful state government stay safe committee.
Uh under a proposal, cyclists would have their own green traffic signals to get a head start over vehicles.
So, like you're sitting at the traffic lights and the green light the the cyclists would have a separate green light, so they'd get to go ahead first.
Similar to lights currently in use for government buses.
Other plans to protect cyclists include putting airbags on The outside of cars to reduce the survey.
I can't I can't read this.
Other plan I can't read this with a straight face, and I am amazed that a sentient human being anywhere in the developed world could type this with a straight face.
Other plans to protect cyclists include putting airbags on the outside of cars to reduce the severity of collisions with cyclists.
General Motors cannot make a vehicle at a price anybody is prepared to pay for it at the moment.
They lose money on every vehicle.
And now a first world government, but w m undoubtedly only the first to join this necessary crusade, is proposing that we should put airbags on the outside of cars.
Airbags on the outside of cars.
And this gets back to the whole net neutrality, by the way.
This is this is nothing to do with who you elect.
You can go you can go into the polling booth on a Tuesday morning in November and vote for the small government guy, and then on the Wednesday morning after, some guy in some regulatory agency you've never heard of will propose uh a regulation requiring vehicles to have airbags on the outside.
And there is literally no end to this.
And this is what the FCC is uh is about.
The FCC was uh started in 1934.
1934.
It's a Roosevelt era thing.
We didn't have all this alphabet soup before then.
The alphabet soup, which now runs America, you know, where where you take any combination of uh three-letter combination, it and it's the name of an agency.
And ones with beginning with F are generally the worst, because they are the federal ones.
Uh so you got uh you've got federal regulation of bake sales, now we've got federal regulation of apps.
Nobody votes for these things.
You know, three people decided to regulate uh the apps for three hundred million people.
Who are these people?
There's a guy called uh Julius Gennakowski, Jenikowski, Genikowski Jenikowski.
I don't know.
He was nominated.
Nobody nobody's heard of any of these guys uh until they announced that the Internet, one of the last things still functioning in the United States of America, uh, was uh now had to be uh federally regulated.
Julius Gennakowski is the chair of the Federal Communications Commission appointed by President Obama.
Uh Mignon Clyburn, I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly.
Uh it's what an attractive name.
Sounds like a stake.
Mignon Clyberg uh was appointed also appointed by uh President Obama and Meredith Atwell Baker, also appointed by President Obama.
These three people nobody's ever heard of uh just decided that they are going to federally regulate uh the Internet.
A court told them, a a court said you don't have the power uh to regulate the internet.
Uh more than three hundred congressmen told them, don't do this, don't regulate the internet.
Three people you've never heard of uh just decided to regulate the internet, just like that.
Now nobody know you can't go anywhere and vote these people out.
What polling booth do you go to to vote out Meredith Atwell Baker?
You can't.
She's just one of those people nobody's ever heard of sitting in a room in some building in Washington or in your local state capital, who suddenly passes a regulation that transforms your life and imposes huge costs uh on the U.S. economy.
Something like uh uh ten percent of GDP now is eaten up uh by the cost of federal regulation, federal regulation alone, and yet they still cannot stop regulating.
They still I'm in favor, by the way, of abolishing the FCC.
The FCC was set up to regulate Mar Bell and Western Union in 1934.
Now look around you.
Do you do you think Mar Bell and Western Union are a big problem today?
No.
So why do we still have the FCC?
Because once you set up uh a uh bureaucracy uh to deal with the certain problem, even if the problem goes away, the bureaucracy remains and you will have that for all time.
So because they can't regulate Mar Bell and Western Union anymore, because the telegram industry, the bottom has dropped out of the whole telegram industry, so like telegram regulation isn't so cool for for this useless bureaucracy.
They've decided to move on and regulate uh and regulate the internet.
Uh And that is the problem, and that is what uh we are going to be uh dealing with uh in the uh in the hours ahead.
We'll talk about that.
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We're also going to be talking about this uh new census uh which has some very interesting uh developments uh in actually entirely predictable developments, which is that the big states, the states that uh have the kind of governments who think that regulating apps is a great idea, uh they are uh they are the they're they're continuing to lose population uh and population is going to some of the uh less onerously burdened states.
Uh so we're gonna get into some census discussion in uh in the years ahead.
But I would like to know why we still have an FCC and why don't we just instead of federally regulating the Internet, why don't we federally regulate the FCC out of existence?
That would do more good for the United States uh of America in the years ahead.
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Tidings are comfort and joy.
Let's go to Steve in uh Oklahoma.
Steve, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It's great to have you with us.
Merry Christmas.
Mark, how are you doing?
I'm I'm I'm doing I'm doing great.
Which part of Oklahoma are you in?
Ben, are you Oklahoma City?
Well, I'm actually in southwest Missouri.
I'm just about to head into Oklahoma.
I'm a Canadian from Toronto, Canada.
And I'm on my way to Oklahoma City to visit a friend.
Oh, right.
So you're you've literally just driven down.
Which part of Canada are you from?
I'm from Toronto.
Oh, so you've dri you've driven from Toronto to Oklahoma.
I've driven and there was ugly weather in the Northeast, and uh now I actually get to phone into the Rush Limbaugh show while I'm on the road.
One of my fantasies, but instead I just get you.
It's a bit disappointing, Mark, just to get another Canadian.
But I'll I'll have to say I enjoy your sense of humor.
Yeah.
Um very much.
Read your columns in the National Post up in Toronto, laugh my head off.
You're a great writer.
Enjoy your sense of humor.
Think you're politically wrong.
And why is that?
Mark, as you will know, having spent so much time in Canada, uh, in Canada we have much higher taxes.
We are much more regulated.
And because of uh both of those facts, when the U.S. economy went absolutely into the ditch, and you yourself said and have been saying all morning this country's broken, uh Canada uh sailed along quite nicely.
We didn't have qu uh anywhere near the uh drop in uh employment uh or GDP that you had.
And here's one more thing, as you know yourself, because I know you visited hospitals in Canada and you enjoyed going in and just showing them a card and leaving.
Uh no national we have a national health care program that puts this country's health care program to shame mark.
I don't I I don't agree with you on that.
That's a ho that's uh a whole other issue.
But I'll tell you, I wish it were as simple as that, because uh there are people, and I had this once with my own child uh in a Montreal hospital uh where uh you get you get denied service for not having the appropriate bureaucratic paperwork, which I've never seen in a U.S. hospital.
Uh but we can we can have that discussion, and that's why, by the way, uh if you go to uh hospitals in the northern tier states here, they're not only full of Canadian doctors and Canadian nurses, they're full of Canadian patients who can't get treatment in their own country.
But let's just stick with the economic thing.
Let's uh just stick with the tax thing.
You're right.
The U.S., Canada emerged relatively sa uh healthily from the downturn compared not just to the United States but to Europe.
And it's interesting to look at that.
Why is that?
Uh it's not because Canada uh has more government regulation.
What caused what caused the downturn?
Well, actually, we'll we'll come back to that bit too.
But no, no, no, no, not on the banking.
The the Canadian banking system isn't kaput uh for a very simple reason.
No, just we'll just just let me make this point on the banking.
There's no subprime mortgages in Canada.
The Royal Bank, you can't get a subprime mortgage from the Royal Bank of Canada.
Government didn't destroy the banking system in Canada the way the federal government, Barney Frank and his pals, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac systematically undermined the property market and the banking system of the United States.
And that's one reason why Canada's economy emerged uh more healthily in 2008 uh than the United States did.
Now, Mark, you know the polite Canadian will let will let you talk, even though I phoned in.
I feel like Christopher Hitchens, uh one of my favorite uh other British American pundits.
Uh He always says, uh thank you for letting me to uh uh come on the program so so you can express your views.
Um but you're uh I'm much too polite to say that.
What I will say is I've never known anyone, because I'm I'm gonna hold you in the other point, I've never known anyone refused service uh in a Canadian hospital.
The rhetoric and the propaganda that is spouted down here about how our health care system is broken is purely rhetoric and propaganda.
Last week my father had uh hernia surgery uh at the Schoaldice Clinic, which is north of Toronto, world famous uh clinic.
Okay, well I'll I'll come back to the the health care thing because I don't want to get into health care today.
Let's start with the.
No, no, I'll tell you I'll tell you that.
There there is a there was a gentleman in the eastern end of Montreal who went there, he was a young man.
I don't know how young old you are.
Twenty-three, twenty-three years old.
He didn't have his one anecdote, Mark.
Well, it's not it's not an anecdote.
That guy is dead.
He's paid in he paid into this system and his family paid into this lousy system all their life, and because he didn't have the card, he was i he was sick.
He had chest pains.
He had chest pains, and they said you don't have your government card with you, you'll have to go back home and get it.
He goes back home, he keels over and he dies.
Uh San uh Rivier des Prairie in uh Eastern Montreal in Quebec.
The guy is dead because of the government paperwork.
There's 37 million people in Canada, and I guess there's 36,999,999 people.
They didn't die in an East Montreal hospital.
We have an incredible uh health care system.
It should be, and it is Well, why why why then uh why then are Can d are there are there thousands of Canadians going for health care in the United States?
Uh whereas there are no Americans going for health care treatment.
A few days, Mark, a few days, and they got pots of money, and that's exactly what I'm saying.
A friend of mine, uh a friend of mine, also twenty-three, is in a coma at the moment in a hospital in London, Ontario.
Now he had a stroke when he was twenty-one.
He he had a heart condition.
Uh he went along to the hospital, the vic I believe the Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario, uh, and he was told about this uh this particular condition, and then as is traditional.
Put on a wait list, put on a wait list.
Uh and in the course of that wait list, he had a stroke, 21 years old.
Twenty-one years old and he has a lot of people.
Let me tell my personal anecdote.
I've got Crohn's disease.
I've had it since I was twenty-one.
My doctor down at St. Mike's Hospital in downtown Toronto, absolutely awesome doctor, won't mention his name on the air.
Um I've had Crohn's disease since I'm tw uh I was twenty-one, I'm fifty.
Twenty-nine years of Canadian health care on my uh on my Crohn's.
I am self-employed.
I don't have private health insurance.
I would be bankrupt nineteen million times over if I was in the United States of America with my Crohn's disease.
I'd be like Fannie Mae and whatever it's called, Mac.
Now let's return from the health care debate, which I think you're still spouting the rhetoric of the right, and not paying the dues to the Canadian system.
Now I'm not gonna pay the dues to the Canadian system.
Go to the You're you you're you're in Toronto.
Do you know do you know the uh the cost of the Ontario health care system uh is predicted is predicted to is predicted to take eighty-five percent of uh the province's revenues by the years twenty twenty.
So in other words, uh unless you have spectacular tax increases.
If you in other words, you keep your taxes in Ontario the same as they are now, by the year 2020, 85% of those revenues will be going to the cost of your health system.
You may it's not an effective way of uh funding uh health care uh any more than Obamacare will be.
You can't have eighty-five percent of government revenues going to health care.
What does that leave for the roads?
What does that leave for the schools?
What does that leave for the police?
The police.
Well, whatever, whatever you want to be spending it on.
Anyway, let's get back to the economy.
You want to talk about the economy and the tax.
Now, can you now in can in Canada we have uh for the Rush l uh limbar listeners uh on the show, Mark knows this, he's Canadian by by way of England.
Um in Canada, all of our banks, which are much fewer than all of these uh regional state area banks we have in the States.
Yeah, they're all strictly regulated, very strictly regulated.
And it was Mr. Bush, not Mr. Obama, okay, and it was Republican administrations that let the banks and the lending institutions, Fannie Mae and whatever the heck the other one's called, Fred, destroy your economy.
So there is your argument.
No, no, you go on all morning about regulation.
No, yeah.
No, here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
You're right.
You're now you're you're right about your right to to to say this that the uh that the uh Canada has a much smaller number of banks uh than the United States.
In the United States there's something like eight thousand banks, there's half a dozen up in Canada.
Uh and b uh somebody said to me the other day, what happened to all the banks in in the you used to see the like the first national bank of Dead Skunk Junction, and now all the banks are initials, you know, because they're all RBS or RBC or T D. And I said that's because all the banks here are owned by foreigners.
Uh T D, which uh you see all over the streets of New York, don't you, Catherine?
When you c walk out here, you see TD Bank here, T D bank across the street, there's a branch of TD Bank four blocks away.
That stands for Toronto Dominion.
No.
Yes, that's a great bank.
That's my bank.
Right, okay.
Your bank my money is safe there, and they're not gonna loan to me if I don't have a job.
This this guy, Steve from Toronto, he he is from the head office of uh New York's biggest bank now, T D, Toronto Dominion Bank.
No, no bank, every bank in the United States of America has initials now, because it can't use its real name.
Because then you'd know UBS, that's Swiss, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
That's why you don't have the first national bank at Dead Skunk Junction anymore, because all the banks are owned by foreigners.
Why are they owned by foreigners?
Because the banking system was undermined when bankers were no longer allowed to evaluate credit risk.
The essence of banking is credit.
Uh when a guy walks in and he says, Well, you know, I'm a sober suited uh chap.
I get up in the morning and I go to work and I I I make uh two hundred dollars a week, but I always save thirty dollars, so I'd like you to lend me uh three thousand and and the banker says, You seem a sensible fellow, I'll lend you.
Then someone was uh would come in and say, uh I uh I've got a uh I've got a two thousand dollar a week uh crack habit.
I'm in the uh nightclubs every night.
Uh when I come out, I like to check in with a couple of favorite hookers on the way home.
I don't have a job, but I get uh a uh uh seventy-five dollar welfare check.
And the government made it illegal uh in effect uh for uh four bankers to do proper credit evaluation.
The f government regulation in this country destroyed the banking industry and destroyed the property market, which are two of the bedrocks of a free society, Steve.
Uh thank you for your call, Steve.
It's uh been great uh talking to you.
I gotta run, I gotta uh we gotta have a rare EIB profit center because we are one of the few rare outposts of functioning capitalism left in the United States, but it was good to talk to you.
Uh hope you have a great time uh over Christmas and dri as you drive back to Toronto, reflect uh reflect on some of the fascinating differences uh between the US and Canada.
But the US economy is not in a hole because it's insufficiently regulated.
In fact, according to the l the most recent uh countdown of economic liberty, Canada now counts as a less regulated and more economically free society than the United States of America.
We are seizing up.
The problem we have in this country is not insufficient government regulation.
Government regulation has undermined the pillars of freedom.
Mark sign in for Rush, lots more to come.
Oh, uh and uh by the way, Mr. Snerdley had uh he's had enough of the disco fever.
He says, get uh he says uh a lot of people want to say that the reason Canada can spend all this money on health care and all the rest of it is because the United States basically covers continental defense.
The the United States if there's an incoming uh over Canadian airspace from uh Moscow in breach of this exciting new start treaty, it'll be the United States that shoots that down and prevents the uh the missile taking out Winnipeg or wherever our pal Steve happens to be driving to.
And that's an important point, by the way.
Uh when you talk about the Euro Canadian health care systems, it's the United States taxpayer uh that pays for them.
Because the the only reason uh that Germany can afford its health care system is because the United States Army lives in Germany.
That's uh that's that that is an important point worth mentioning.
While we're also uh doing some uh late uh corrections, a classical scholar, Matthew Scott Morrison, has said to Me uh sent me an email uh saying that I was wrong to uh hail Sparta as the gay superpower, and that Thebes, Thebes was way gayer than Sparta.
The Theban unit called the Sacred Band of Thebes was the gayest unit in the classical military.
Uh unfortunately they were wiped out in the Battle of Caronia in 338 BC by Philip II of Macedonia.
Uh but they uh no, it wasn't he didn't take the he did backstab them.
Uh no, he didn't, he didn't take the they weren't taken from the rear by Ta King King Philip II of Macedonia was not known as tail gunner Phil.
You know, it's nothing to do.
There's uh uh but the uh but you know this is I didn't realize that the gayest uh military power in history, there was competition for the title, but apparently Thebes is way gayer than Sparta.
I think it's like extreme warmongering.
Maybe we should just have all gay war.
Because the Taliban um have the the Taliban guy, the pushton guys in Kandahar are great boy lovers.
Uh w one of the, in fact, frankly, uh absolutely disgraceful aspects of the Afghan war is uh is uh that uh our guys in Kandahar are turning a blind eye to the paedophilia among the uh among some of these pushtoon warlords.
But if that's the way we're gonna go, then I don't see why we don't just have like gay units of the United States military battling it out with gay units of the Taliban, and let's have uh, as I said, like extreme warmongering.
I'm just thinking out uh I'm just thinking outside the box here.
Uh Markstein in for infra uh rush.
Uh we've been talking about uh government, uh big big government, uh, and particularly this rule by acronyms by the alphabet soup uh of uh of these regulatory agencies mo uh which started in the Roosevelt area uh era and then was made worse by LBJ.
You know what my favorite government agency is of these uh of the alphabet soup agencies?
The BPD.
Do you know what the BPD is?
It's uh it's fascinating to me, this the BPD, the Bureau of Public Debt.
It's not enough that we're in debt.
We have to set up a government agency specifically dedicated to the public debt.
The Bureau of Public Debt, it's in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
It's the only that and the clan lodge are the only two buildings in West Virginia not named after Robert C. Byrd.
Uh the Bureau of Pu uh Public Debt, Parkersburg, West Virginia, and I just see its hiring.
If you go to the careers page of their website, the Bureau of the Public Debt is one of the best places to work in the federal government.
When you work for BPD, you're part a part of one of the federal government's most dynamic agencies.
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I'm sure.
They're committed, it says here, they're committed to a working environment of information, informality, integrity, inclusion, and individual respect.
I, in the land of the blind, the five-eyed bureaucrat is king.
Uh unfortunately, no room for the uh the sixth eye insolvency.
That doesn't seem to be any worry to anyone at the Bureau of Public Debt.
But at some point in the near future, big government will have reached its state of perfection, and all revenues in the United States will either be going to Chinese debt service uh or to lavish pensions liabilities for retired bureaucrats from the Bureau of Public Debt.
Mark Stein, Infor Rush on the EIB network, lots more to come.
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