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Dec. 22, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 22, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
I'll be here tomorrow.
We're gonna have uh best of rush on Christmas Eve, and then uh for your Christmas Day listening pleasure, uh three hours of EIB approved Christmas music.
Tis the season.
Tis the season uh at uh at EIB.
But even though it's Christmas, government goes on, the lame duck session uh goes on, uh Obama rebound analysis, as the Associated Press is calling it.
Uh what it what is interesting about this, uh the so-called rebound analysis is that this big signature thing of it is uh that uh uh Obama has signed on to the Bush tax cuts.
We got the Bush tax cuts for another two years.
And by the way, we should we wouldn't otherwise be calling them the Bush tax cuts.
We would be calling them the Obama tax increases.
Uh the Obama tax increases.
Uh so instead we're going to keep the tax rates the same for two years.
And by the way, this is the insane level of debate in the United States of America uh at the moment.
Right now, the economy is moribund.
Uh businesses are sitting on, by some estimates, two trillion dollars worth of cash.
Why are they sitting on two trillion dollars worth of cash?
Because they don't know what the economic climate is going to be in the United States, because they d because the rules are unclear.
And if you don't know what the rules are, you sit on your money because you never know when you're gonna need uh a big chunk of change uh in a hurry.
Uh you don't know if the if the tax rates are uncertain, uh if the regulatory environment is uncertain, you sit on a big chunk of change because you never know when you're gonna need it.
And so all this talk, all this talk, months and end, oh, the Bush tax cuts, uh the b the Bush tax cuts will be expiring.
Why do you think people uh don't want to grow the economy?
Why do you think people don't want to hire?
Why do you think people don't want to open new branch offices?
Uh because you don't know what the rules are.
People invest uh and do business in markets uh where they know what the rules are.
That's why you don't that's why nobody wants to uh open a store in Southern Sudan uh because the Janjaweed will ride in and machete all your employees to death.
Uh you need to you you want a stable business environment uh where you know what the rules are.
And the Obama administration has made the rules uncertain.
Now to add to all that, three people, three bureaucrats, unaccountable, you can't go to any polling station and uh and vote them out.
Three bureaucrats uh have decided that what this country needs is federal regulation of the Internet.
The Internet still seems to just about function, just about function.
Uh so that's all the more reason uh to uh bring it under the control of the federal bureaucracy.
After all, if we can have federal regulation of grade school bake sales, why should you be able uh to uh open up your computer and send an email without that being federally regulated?
Uh we as I mentioned uh in the last hour, uh we're gonna have federal regulation of apps.
Federal regulation of apps.
Do you realize how insane uh a pretty pass this country has come to when you cannot even get an app from the uh app store at Apple or wherever you get apps uh without that now coming under the control of Federal bureaucrats.
People think there is no cost to this, but it already cost federal regulation already costs ten percent of America's GDP.
Almost everything you want to do now comes under the regulation of some bureaucrat.
In the immortal words of Pete Stark, one of the emirs of Incumbistan returned to office on November the second.
He's been there since 1973, uh and he was asked while he was running for his nineteenth term in Congress uh whether there was anything that the Federal Government couldn't do, and he responded that the Federal Government, yes, can do most anything in this country.
And he's right, he's right.
Because if the federal government can regulate your app, there is nothing that the Federal Government can't do.
Uh and that's why that's why these bills are two thousand pages.
They're two thousand pages because they're no longer laws.
A law uh a law is a relatively simple piece of legislation.
Uh But when you have when you are basically loosing up just a big bunch of uh federal bureaucrats to regulate different citizens in different ways according to different activities, then there is no law.
You're in a land beyond law.
And and hyper regulation is a form of tyranny.
So we do not need the FCC to regulate the Internet.
We need to abolish the FCC.
People talk about how are we going to get out of this multi-trillion dollar hole?
A good way to start, a good way to start would be to abolish every agency beginning with the letter F, because there is way too much federal regulation in the United States of America.
And all that means, by the way, is that laws are no longer made by lawmakers, but they're just made by people you don't know and people you can't vote out and people who are not accountable to the people's representatives.
Do you remember Charlie Rangel at his press conference a couple of weeks ago?
And he was asked, an interviewer pointed out that if an ordinary citizen had done what he'd done, done they'd have thrown the book at that citizen.
If you're an ordinary citizen and you don't declare rental income on your rental property in the Dominican Republic, the IRS will throw the book at you.
But instead, he just gets off with a little bit of censure from his fellow congressmen.
And an interviewer asked him and said if it had been any average American citizen, they'd have had the book thrown at them.
And he said, quote, I don't deal in average American citizens, unquote.
And I only wish that were true because the reality is that our legislators, they don't deal in average citizens.
They leave it to the FCC and OSHA and every other of these alphabet soup acronyms to deal with American citizens in increasingly unequal ways.
Charlie Rangel votes the bill and then doesn't care what's in it.
Everything can be left to the agency of this, the board of that, the commission of the other, all manned by millions and millions.
These are bureaucrats whose role is to determine arbitrarily but authoritatively which of the multiple categories of unequal before the law, secondly,
class, third class, for fourth class citizenship uh that you happen to fall into this is an uh this is uh an assault on popular sovereignty uh when the FCC can basically uh start uh regulating the internet to provide uh to require different providers to provide more access for this or more access for that they're not as they say preserving preserving the internet or maintaining the neutrality of the internet they're distorting the Internet uh
from what has made it a success so far in that unlike the dying gatekeeper media, unlike the dying newspaper industry, unlike the dying network news TV shows, this is something where the market speaks, you find an audience, you can reach your audience, the audience can find you, and the government doesn't interject itself between you and that audience and others.
impose a vast regulatory cost on it so if you subscribe for your internet service provider that's going to be going up eventually they'll be charging you for emails.
I mean the way to look at this is uh to take any government bureaucracy and think uh does it just uh stick to uh stick to what it was set up to do or does it metastasize and eventually expand and explode and regulate everything it can get its hands on.
In California uh the the health administration in the state of California now this is a bankrupt state California used to be the golden state now it's the folding state it's going out of business.
California did this to its itself uh nobody can do business in California the costs are too high so business is a fleeing California.
What business is still in California?
The pornography industry.
They still make pornographic movies in California.
I don't know why I guess they need good weather for the exterior shots or or whatever whatever it is.
So they're gonna regulate pornography in California under under health and safety at work.
So they're gonna they want it they want uh they're gonna require that uh on California pornographic movie stets they observe the same hygiene standards as hospitals.
Actually, just to go back just to go back to what Steve from Oklahoma was saying in our last hour.
I've been in uh a couple of hospitals in the province of Quebec that I wish would bring themselves up to the hygiene standards of the average California pornographic movie shoot, by the way.
Because if you look if you look at the levels of disease of uh C. deficile and all these other infections they've got going round there, I would be very grateful if they if they had the pristine hygiene standards of uh of a California pawn shoot.
But anyway, in California it's the other way around.
They're gonna c require California porn shoots to uh bring themselves up to the stand.
So I don't know what that means.
I don't know whether the uh the the uh the the participants are all gonna be having uh to wear surgical masks.
They called in a porn movie star.
This is a bureaucratic agency in California.
They called in this big porn movie star uh to talk to her about the health situation uh on California pornographic movie shoots, and she's describing some group sex seeds she put into.
Uh she she was she she was uh she was part of.
There were like I forget how many there were.
There were like like sixty-seven guys or whatever in the group sex scene.
And the bureaucrats, you can see the light bulbs go off in their head.
They're thinking, wow, maybe we could have a a uh a state regulation capping the maximum number of performers in a group sex scene.
You know, this is the health and safety administration of California.
And they're thinking, who needs Debbie does Dallas?
You know, maybe if we do Debbie does uh the Sacramento branch of the OSHA office, it would make a much better movie.
Uh this is the insanity.
Uh state regulation of pornography, federal regulation of the internet.
America will die.
And that's not an exaggeration.
America will uh will will embalm itself uh in regulations.
The m the most important thing you could do for liberty in this society is start dismantling and uh uh and putting these bureaucratic agencies out of business.
There is no need for an FCC, and that is why they need to move on and annex new areas of your life to interfere in.
Uh I think I think uh if the FCC want to have a fight uh on this, then we should have a showdown.
And the FCC is the issue here.
The issue is not the internet.
The internet works fine.
The FCC doesn't work fine.
So the internet shouldn't be the issue.
The FCC is the issue.
Uh and that's what conservatives that's the ground conservatives should stand on.
It's the FCC that needs to justify itself, not the Internet, which is one of the great success stories uh of the modern age.
Mark Stein in for Rush, Christmas at the EIB Network Network.
Lots more still to come.
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Let's go to uh Anna Marie in uh Noblesville, Indiana.
Anna Marie, thanks for uh thanks for waiting.
Where where does Anna Marie come on uh Rush's list of uh favorite uh ladies' name?
Oh, wait of number one.
Oh, it's it's up in the top ten, uh Anna Marie.
I think you're at uh hit hit position number seven, somewhere like that on Rush's list of uh female uh favorite female names.
That's uh that's good to know.
And that's Anna Marie, by the way.
Anna, just Anna and just Marie don't make it at all.
But Anna Marie's.
It has to be Anna Marie.
My mother insisted on that.
Yeah, that is lovely.
Malifluous name.
What a mellifluous name.
Thank you.
Thank you for and what a mellifluous town, Nobel's, Indiana.
That's the noble people.
Yeah, the noble people of Noblesville.
Great, great to have you with us, uh Anna Marie.
Thank you, and thanks for taking my call.
I want to tell you how much I enjoy your commentary, especially the Dublin Tendres.
They are a riot.
I've been staying away from them.
I didn't do any money shot jokes in my little riff on the California pornographic indust movie industry being fair being uh state regulated.
I stayed away from all the dublon tonders.
Well, today uh I that's my opinion.
And I think you would make a great press secretary in 2012.
Oh, what fun.
Okay.
I I I'll be uh I'll if I need a government job, I will bear that one in mind.
I hope so.
Um Mark, I would like to hear your thoughts on the one trillion dollar Christmas gift the Republicans gave to Obama under the guise of unemployment compensation.
Well this is the extension of uh the unemployment insurance which I think I think in fairness uh is only gonna call this is the way people talk now.
They say it only costs an additional $160 billion, because when you're the brokest country in history, eventually you're liberated, and you don't have to worry about little rinky-dink sums like $160 billion, because it doesn't make any difference.
In the context of the hole you're in, this is just some little new pimple that you've dug at the bottom of it.
But what's wrong about this is that this does nothing.
This does nothing for the economy.
All the evidence shows, and this is the tragedy of the United States, by the way.
about any of this uh the Europeans did this stuff and then even they figured it out that uh if you have one year of unemployment insurance or you have six months of unemployment insurance or you have two years of unemployment insurance it doesn't make any difference.
People don't start looking for a job uh until they get the penultimate check.
Uh so in effect uh whether you've got six month unemployment insurance, one year unemployment insurance, two year unemployment insurance, or now as in the United States three years, people don't start looking for work uh un until the penultimate check.
And then in that last month when they know the money's gonna run out, they try to find a job.
And that's why the Europeans who all had these uh la often in had lavish not as lavish as this, but a lot of them had two year unemployment insurance uh uh uh uh uh uh stints uh began reeling them back.
The Scandinavians did, the Germans did, the British did.
All this stuff has been tried.
It's failed everywhere it's tried.
And the perhaps the most stupid remark uh made uh in the last several weeks goes to Nancy Pelosi who uh says that unemployment insurance is the way to stimulate the economy.
In that case why don't they just wait till we're all unemployed and then give us unemployment insurance uh till we turn till our 137th birthday and the and the economy will be going gangbusters.
This this is this was unnecessary uh it was wasteful but the Republicans felt that in the bigger scheme of things they might as well string along with this uh in return for the I I don't know whether they should have done that.
I don't think I would have done that.
I think it damages uh people the the the the problem the big problem with welfare is not that it's a waste of money but it's a waste of people.
When you've got healthy people sitting around just taking a government check for three years it's the waste of money, yes, but it's also the waste of human lives that is the great tragedy of that system.
And I was going to run out she had been on unemployment for two years and she said oh my I'll have to go out and and and see if I can get a part-time job.
Yeah yeah that's and that's that's the mentality.
Well that's that's exactly that's exactly the same wherever it's been tried.
Wherever it's been tried in the last month, just before it runs out, people start people start looking for work.
And and and the reason and the reason the economy the reason we have this 10% unemployment here is because the government is making the cost of hiring people expensive.
If we had less government uh it wouldn't be so expensive to hire people.
Basically when you um if you take somebody with a you know who earns 4000 dollars a year and maybe has another $10,000 worth of benefits uh so in other words she gets about fifty thousand uh but you have to pay uh maybe another uh twenty five thousand to the government for the privilege of giving uh Anna Marie or whoever a fifty thousand dollar job so so the government in effect imposes uh like a thirty-five percent surcharge
on the cost of hiring people so if we didn't have a hundred and sixty billion dollar unemployment uh programs we'd have far fewer people unemployed the government makes the cost of hiring people too expensive.
That's one reason why we got thirty million or whatever it is illegal immigrants in in this country because it's a lot cheaper to hire somebody illegally uh than it is uh to hire a a uh a law abiding U.S. citizen once the government has increased the cost of hiring that person uh Anna Marie.
It it's it's a dilemma.
It's not a dilemma.
It's actually very it's very easy.
If we had less of this stuff uh we'd have lower unemployment and we'd have a a a much uh healthier economy.
But I I hope your friend has a better luck in the year ahead.
And by the way, uh it is the mentality, but you should encourage that friend of yours, uh, just uh just say it's a waste of time sitting around getting a government check for doing nothing.
You'll feel far better.
It corrodes the soul in the end.
It corrodes the integrity of a a human being.
So you tell your friend to get out there and start looking uh for for work that gives her her life meaning and value rather than just taking the the government check.
Thanks for your call, Anna Marie, and a very mellifluous Merry Christmas uh to somebody on the top ten list of Russia's favorite female names.
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Uh I mentioned this Mignon Clyburn, who's one of the three people, three people who decided in defiance of a court and defiance of uh congressional elected representatives that they were going to regulate the internet.
And uh I I'd said I didn't know who this Mignon Clyburn was.
And it turns out she's the daughter of uh a Congressman Jim Clyburn, who uh we got into trouble for when Rush was doing all his uh driving Miss Nancy stuff.
So so I'm now reviving for just for she uh a little Christmas card for Sheila Jackson Lee.
If you're out there, Sheila, Merry Christmas.
We're digging up the most racist, racist, racist controversy of the year just for you, because we're not just doing jokes about Jim Clyber now.
We've moved on to do jokes about his daughter.
Uh that's how racist we are.
Uh Mignon Clyburn is uh Jim Clyburn's daughter.
It's like the House of Lords of bureaucrats now.
That's what this country's come down to.
Um and uh and Commissioner Clyber, not to be confused with Congressman Clyburn.
I'm going from the official biography here.
Commissioner Clyburn has a long history of public service and dedication to the public interest.
Do you know what that means?
Dedication to the public interest.
It means you've been paying for this woman all your life.
Uh Miss Clyburn, this is her the years of expertise She brings to regulating your internet and to regulating your brand new Rush Limbaugh app, which will be a federally regulated app unless uh this nonsense is thrown out.
Miss Clyburn, this is the years of experience she brings to her job.
Miss Clyburn served as the chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
There's so many regulatory utility commissioners, they have a national association.
I don't know what they do.
Do they go to Florida and play golf?
Do they uh like take a do they have a big annual convention in Vegas?
Do they go to the Virgin Islands?
Do they go and meet uh the National Association of Regulatory U utility commissioners from Fiji or Papua New Guinea and have an international convention of uh regulatory commissioners?
And that's yeah, that's right.
The break the breakout session, the breakout session at the uh at the National Convention of Regulatory Commissioners.
And before that, by the way, oh she served on the audit committee of the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners uh Commission.
And Commissioner Clyburn is also a former chair of the South Eastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commission.
So they don't just have a national association, they have regional associations as well.
She worked her way up.
She probably just started as a former chair of the municipal association of regulatory commissioners, but she soon worked her way up to a state-to-state uh association, then the regional association, and then the chair of the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners.
And uh by the way, who regulates the uh National Association of Regulatory Commissioners?
What regulatory agency does the do the regulatory commissioners uh come under?
Uh but anyway uh now she is one of the three people in the United States of America who has decided that it is time to regulate the internet.
Uh uh well her experience with communications is that she she she doesn't need g experience with communications.
She's experienced at regulating.
If you regulate one thing, you you can regulate something else.
If you regulate California, Mr. Snowley is looking at this th the the wrong way.
He thinks that you need to uh demonstrate some insight into the industry you're regulating.
No, no, no.
You need to understand how to regulate.
If you can regulate bake sales, if you can regulate California porn movie shoots, uh if you can r uh regulate uh anything else in this country, you certainly capable of regulating the internet.
What matters is experience in regulation.
You can do yeah, I'm sure you can take a master's degree in regulation.
People, I'm sure, I'm sure I don't want to make it sound as if the woman is totally unqualified.
I'm sure she's got a bachelor's in in in uh in regulatory regulation from some uh eminent educational institution.
But Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner Clyburn is the daughter of Congressman Clyburn.
It's the House of Lords of Bureaucrats.
That's what the Republic has come down to after two and a quarter two and a quarter centuries.
It's uh it ought to it ought to be it ought to embarrass uh a man.
The only regulatory agency is the one that uh uh I suggested to a listener when I was here a couple of weeks ago, the ANC, which is not the African National Congress anymore.
It's the Alliance of Noncompliance.
When I was here uh back in the fall of the summer, and uh I was stunned because I'd I'd received the notification from the New York State Bureau of Compliance that told me I was in noncompliance with the Bureau of Compliance, and the fine for that the fine for that is 14,000.
The fine said at 14,000 dollars.
So we we wrote back and said, uh, what exactly did we do to uh be in noncompliance?
And they sat on our letter for like seven weeks and then wrote back and said uh we we'll look into that.
But in the meantime, in the seven weeks it's taken us to respond to you, the interest on your on your $14,000 fine for being in noncompliance with the Bureau of Compliance now means you owe us $27,000.
So that's the skill you need.
This is what I'm sure Mignon Clyburn, when she's uh when she's going to be regulating uh regulating all these internet service providers, will be able to provide uh uh that level uh that level of s uh of scrutiny.
But this is the death of the Republic, actually, this micro regulatory state.
Uh the m it's it's not uh it's it's a tragedy.
It's a tragedy because it se it means every industry, no matter how dynamic it is when it starts, eventually seizes up.
Alexis de Toks to Tocqueville.
Alexis de Tocville said it and said it best.
Uh Quote, there was a time in Europe in which the law as well as the consent of the people clothed kings with a power almost without limits.
But almost never did it happen that they made use of it, unquote.
And he's right, he's right, because the king was an absolute tyrant in theory, uh, but in practice he was in his palace uh uh hundreds of miles away, and you know, once in a while he might send some uh pantalooned flunky prancing into your into your dooryard uh every half decade or so to give you a hard time.
But for the most part, you just got on with your life relatively unscathed.
And then Tockville added this.
He said, uh quote, although the entire government of the Empire was concentrated in the hands of the Emperor alone, the details of social life and of individual existence escaped his control.
But what would happen, said Tockville, uh if administrative capability were to evolve to make it possible to subject all the king's subjects to the details of a uniform set of regulations.
And that has happened now.
Thanks to computer technology and a lot of other things, it's easier than ever to subject all the king's subjects to a uniform set of regulations.
And that's what Mignon Clyburn and the other courtiers of the vast microregulatory state uh are planning to do to you.
This is a bridge too far.
Uh we ought to be standing up and saying if uh they're gonna have to prize the Internet from our cold dead mouse pad before we surrender federal regulation uh uh over over the internet, over apps, over email, over one of the last dynamic sectors uh in what used to be a thriving capitalist economy.
So this is not a minor thing.
Uh we'll talk about that and we'll talk about the new census uh and where people are moving to uh uh and uh and uh the Obama rebound, the alleged Obama rebound.
We'll get into all that and lots more, and your calls straight ahead, one-eight hundred-282-2882, Mark Stein InfoRush.
Santa Claus is coming to town Christmas on the EIB network.
Let's go to Jeff in uh Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Uh Jeff, great to have you on the show with us.
Oh, Jeff uh Je Jeff isn't there.
Let's go to Brent, then in uh London, Ontario.
Ooh, I wonder if this is gonna be one of these uh savage, uh savage Canadian Rottweilers church.
Absolutely not, Mark.
Absolutely not.
What a pleasure.
Oh, pleasure pleasure to have you.
I was in London uh uh uh last month, in fact.
So I did miss you.
I heard you were coming to town and uh I got snowed in.
Oh, you you missed a great show.
And in fact, I'm uh you couldn't get you said you were snowed in and you couldn't get to see me.
A lady came to see me from Santa Monica, Kyle uh Santa Barbara, California.
Uh she she took a plane from Santa Barbara to LAX, a plane from LAX to Detroit, and then she drove all the way from Detroit, got a rental car and drove all the way from Detroit to London to and you live three blocks away and you couldn't come and see.
So nuts to you.
Okay, what's your point?
Yeah.
Okay.
Well what uh what uh merry Merry Christmas to you to you too, Brent.
Well, I was uh you know, I listen every day, have been uh for many, many years, and that guy that's Steve from Toronto just prompted me to call.
I just have to make a plea to all Americans to fight Obamacare with your last breath.
Right.
You buy into this.
Now that poor guy, third generation propagandist.
You grow up through the Canadian health care or the education system, and then put the C B C when you're sitting around the dinner table.
And this just did.
America sucks.
Breaking news, Canada's health care is great.
Right.
That's that's uh that was one of the leaked wiki leak cables.
Uh some guy at the US Embassy at Ottawa say, Oh, the Canadian broadcasting uh corporation i is a little bit anti-American.
What do you need a professional diplomat to tell me?
Oh, you know, you walk into any hospital in Ontario and there's baked sales and they're selling quilted jeans and and patches on your genes trying to raise money to replace the twenty-five-year-old X-ray machine.
So yeah, we're we're just great up here.
Yeah, i i the the the problem with the problem with the uh the the Canadi as you say is that people have been brainwashed that this is the only way, Mark they they need the blue pill.
Exactly.
And uh and unfortunately the blue pill, there's a there's a two-year wait list uh for that to get it up in uh up in Canada.
Well, he was talking about anecdotal evidence.
Unfortunately, every Canadian family has tragic anecdotal evidence Of a family member who waited.
Now, hey, we may have the best hospice care in the world.
We will get you pumped up and you'll be comfortable, but we won't treat you.
No, and and and you make a you make a good point, by the way, about anecdotal evidence.
Because actually medical care is anecdotal.
Absolutely.
If my son's sick, I care about my son.
I don't I don't want statistics showing uh a life expectancy for this and life expectancy for that.
Health care is anecdotal.
It's my body.
If I've got if I've got a problem in my i i in my kidney, my kidney isn't an anecdote.
My kidney is one hundred percent of the story, as far as I'm concerned.
Against the law in Canada to try to save your own life.
Right.
People need to understand that.
This is this is draconian what we have up here.
It's not civilized.
No, you can go pick out a hundred different cereals, but when it comes to living or dying, I'm that's it.
And and if you recall during the Vancouver Olympics, uh the the uh government of British Columbia announced uh that it would be putting all elective health uh procedures on hold during the Olympics, because they didn't want a big time, you know, skier from uh from Germany or Russia or whatever being taken sick and being put on a Canadian wait list.
So the only way they would have been able to treat people uh in the in during the Vancouver Olympics is if they told all the uh taxpayers of British Columbia who pay for this system, sorry, uh you your your elective operations are gonna uh have to wait.
You can elect to have the uh operation, but we're not gonna elect to give it to you.
And that that is at the heart of the uh Canadian system that you're accepting, and this is why Sarah Palin is right about death panels, because you're accepting the right of a government bureaucrat uh to have jurisdiction over your body parts, and that's that is what is at the heart of that problem, Brent.
So uh I I I know there are good doctors and nurses in London, Ontario, but I also know that when you're told you're gonna have to wait six months to see a specialist, then then the best thing to do is to uh to hit the highway and drive to s t uh uh across to Port Huron uh or down to Detroit or wherever you can go where if you uh if you walk into a hospital, the the thing they tell you is uh not that a bureaucrat has rule that there's an 18-month wait for that.
Thank you very much for your call.
Brent in London, Ontario.
A different perspective.
You know, it this is important, by the way.
I get very worried when I hear Republicans saying we we we maybe we can work with Obamacare, maybe we c if we amend it at the margins and all the rest of it.
No, you drive a stake through the heart of it.
This is the bu the bureaucratization of health care isn't even like the bureaucratization of the California porn movie industry or the uh bureaucratization of the grade school bake sale and all the other nonsense we're seeing.
This is the line that when you cross this, it's very difficult to have genuinely conservative government ever again, because you change a citizen into a subject.
When a man says uh when a man has a medical problem, uh like these poor Quebecers uh that uh I mentioned here last year, who uh have uh going to the toilet twelve times a night, and they're told they have to keep going to the toilet twelve times a night rather than have a simple twenty-minute procedure.
They've got to keep going to the toilet twelve times a night for three years because a government bureaucrat has told them that's the way it's gonna be.
When a man accepts the bureaucracy's jurisdiction over his bladder, he is not a citizen but a subject.
And that lesson should have been settled in 1776.
And that is why Obamacare is fundamentally incompatible with the American idea.
Mark Stein, Infrarush, Christmas at the EIB network, Mordecai.
Mark Stein at the EIB network sitting in for rush.
What what happened to the Christmas music?
That's that's that's non-seasonal mus.
That's not that's that's totally non seasonal that uh that uh that's what uh that's completely nonsense.
Oh, here we go.
That's that's that's more like it.
This is appropriate.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proclaimed a state of emergency in six California counties.
S a state of seasonal emergency in six California counties.
Uh I don't know why uh is that the unregulated pornography shoots uh rampaging out of control?
I don't I don't know.
It's the unregulated rain.
That's the point.
As soon as we get as soon as we get the climate change regulated, uh then we won't be having to have these uh states of uh states of emergency anymore.
By the way, I I I got an email saying I'd uh diss the porn star uh who testified to the Safety and Health uh uh standards board.
I just uh sort of implied she was some nickel and dime porn actress, but in fact she's uh one of the most eminent pornography actresses, Madeline Hernandez.
And she testified that she had uh done a a group sex scene with uh 75 men.
And uh you could see all the bureaucrats thinking, mm-hmm, should we cap the number of group sex scene participants at sixty men?
You know, which I think would be helpful.
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