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Dec. 23, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 23, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
Great to be with you.
I believe I'm the only illegal immigrant not covered by the DREAM Act Amnesty.
Harry Reid had it uh stuck in on page two thousand and seventy-three of the bill.
Uh but uh but that's that's that's tough on me, but it's uh it's not too bad.
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Uh join us uh over the weekend for three hours of EIB approved Christmas music, and then I believe uh Mark Belling is in on Monday.
Is that right?
Mark Mark Belling's uh in on Monday, and then I think I'm back a little uh uh uh a little later in the week.
Uh that's uh I don't want to don't want to get too hung up on uh forthcoming details.
After yesterday's show, I got a couple of emails uh saying, why didn't I say anything?
Speaking of these uh uh the the poor Congolese pygmies who uh uh the victims of both sides in the civil wars.
Uh a couple of people wrote to me yesterday, said why didn't you have any news on the Uyghurs who are the uh the Chinese Muslims that were sprung from Gitmo.
Uh and that for some reason every time I uh every time I was doing this show, there was there was always there was always some news story involving Uyghurs in the news.
Uh and we didn't have uh uh we didn't have any Uyghur Wednesday stories uh yesterday, uh because there weren't any.
But I I forgot to mention the last time I was in Bermuda for a while, and I came within a uh a smidgenette of actually seeing these Uyghurs that Obama sprung from Gitmo and dropped on Bermuda.
There were four of them.
And he and he did this deal with Bermuda to take the uh because the Chinese didn't want the Uyghurs back from Gitmo, so he released them to Bermuda.
And my uh my Bermudian friend Akilah, she she uh she said to me at uh at one point, she said, Hey, you'll never guess who I just saw.
And I said who?
And she goes, I saw the four Uyghurs, uh which sounds like a kind of vocal group from the fifties, isn't it?
It's like the four aces, the four lads, uh the four Uyghurs, the four Uyghurs, the great new hot new Chinese Muslim vocal group.
But the four Uyghurs, uh she saw them, she was uh she was driving through St. George's in Bermuda, and all four of them crossed the street in front of her, uh like uh like the Beatles on the uh on the Abbey Road crosswalk.
And uh and and so she sees me twenty minutes later and she goes, I just saw the Uyghurs.
She th they looked very unhappy.
They didn't look as if they were enjoying their exile to Bermuda by Obama.
Uh but at any rate, that's uh that's uh I was I was mad I I missed I missed the Uyghurs actually seeing the four Obama Uyghurs by uh by about twenty minutes.
But uh but my friend Akeela saw them uh in Bermuda in in St. George's Bermuda.
So I don't know whether that's the their living, but uh uh that's that's where they're living.
Yeah, I miss my Uyghur window of opportunity closed.
But if you're in St. George's Bermuda, uh look out look out for the Uyghurs.
Now we were talking we were talking about uh the great Obama comeback.
And um uh you can have two different views on this, I think.
But what I think is disappointing is that in return for getting uh a two-year extension of the of the Bush tax cuts, um uh the the Republicans did not exact, I think, a high enough price for some of this other stuff.
Yes, they stopped the Obama nebus spending bill, but they didn't stop spending.
And it's not just a question about slowing down the growth of spending.
It is about actually uh stopping spending and about reversing spending and about cutting agencies uh and about closing programs and about firing bureaucrats.
Uh because uh the bottom line is that if government continues to spend at this rate, then it's over.
Then it's over, because uh we're just gonna we're just gonna slide off the cliff.
Uh and that's why, as I said, it's it's actually important to do that Milton Friedman thing where you force the wrong people to do the right thing, as when Harry Reid with uh withdrew that bill.
Now you take this uh James Zadroga uh 911 bill.
This is the bill that passed yesterday.
And it's a very difficult thing uh for even for Republicans to talk against.
Uh because b uh because you know, it's about fire.
It's about firemen, basically.
It's about first responders at 911.
America's heroes.
And who wants to go up against them?
Nobody wants it.
It's a thankless task.
Uh the they uh they pounded into those buildings on uh uh uh grim, bleak, dark Tuesday morning, uh, and they uh and and they were the only good news on what was an otherwise lousy morning, and by the way, a total failure of government on that morning,
all the fancy pants, money no objects, acronyms failed, failed, failed, failed, beginning with the INS uh and the State Department admitting uh those uh terrorists to kill all those Americans on uh on on visa forms that were filled in with joke answers.
If you look at the address, like those uh 9-11 terrorists, uh the there's a question that says, uh, where are you going to be staying in the United States?
And they'd put and and the and one of them said, Holiday in America.
And those guys, your government admitted those guys into this country on the base of those answers.
If there was like an octogenarian snowbird in Toronto who's been going to a condo in Florida every winter since 1948, they wouldn't let her in with that answer, but they let all these young Saudi males in to kill you guys with that answer.
That's your your government failed on that day, and the only uh government officials who didn't fail were municipal officials, the fire department pounding up the steps of those buildings.
So that we have now the James Zedroga 911 Health and Compensation Act, because people got ill.
So this it covers 71,000 first responders, including from uh twenty-four from Wyoming.
Twenty-four from Wyoming.
That would seem to me a statistically improbable uh number of first responders from Wyoming who were taken ill uh by uh what they uh what they did at 911, presumably not on that day, of course, because uh there were no planes that day, so it took some while to get from Wyoming uh to New York City in the aftermath of uh of nine eleven.
So uh people are getting sick, we have to help them.
Uh and that's entirely reasonable.
But but this is called a compensation act.
Nobody has ever established what it is that they're being compensated for.
Nobody has ever established a scientific link between their illnesses and nine eleven.
Nevertheless, you know, they're America's heroes.
So let's just uh you can see the way i it th th the legislators are thinking.
Nobody wants to hold this thing up.
Let's just let's just uh sign a bill to give compensation to America's heroes and move on, because it's a thankless task, a thankless task.
Um it was eight billion dollars.
They chopped it down to seven billion, then they chopped it down to six billion, and then they chopped it down to four billion.
This was the work of basically one man and a couple of other senators.
Senator Tom Coburn.
Senator Tom Coburn basically halved the cost of this bill by identifying uh potential waste in it.
For example, he capped the lawyers' fees.
Everybody thinks this eight billion dollars uh was going to the seventy-one thousand first responders.
And by the way, you do the math on that.
These are these are public service unions who already have way better health care than you.
Uh they've got some of the best health care packages on the planet.
Uh but uh nevertheless uh we were going to divide eight billion dollars between seventy-one thousand people.
Senator Coburn and a couple of others looked at it and saw that a huge amount of that was going to legal fees.
In other words, just uh it was gonna be party time for trial lawyers.
So he capped legal fees in this bill at ten percent.
That's one of the changes he made.
Okay?
So you thought you thought we were just giving billions of dollars to firemen.
No, we're giving billions of dollars to trial lawyers.
Okay, but don't let that bother you because it's America's heroes.
So let's we don't want to get caught up in this.
So let's just pass the bill and move on, because there's nothing there's nothing to be said for standing up to st to to to a bill like this, you'll just look like a mean-spirited right-wing hate monger.
Let's let's take what Senator Coburn did as a good object lesson in the way American legislating now works in the twenty-first century.
He basically chopped the cost of this bill in half.
And it's not gonna affect the health care of any of these firemen.
It's not gonna affect uh w the kind of health treatment these first responders get.
Uh they're still gonna get all the care, the best care in the world, and yet the bill has been chopped in half.
Don't you think don't you think that an awful lot of legislation would go that way?
Don't you think that in the United States of America, Shannon uh Shannon, the educator that we spoke to earlier.
Her business is a very good example of that.
As I said, American education spends more per student than anywhere on the planet except Luxembourg and has nothing to show for it.
Wouldn't you say that at least thirty to fifty percent of the money in the United States education budget is entirely wasted.
I would like to see Senator Coburn apply what he just applied to the James the Droga nine eleven Health and Compensation Act to every other piece of legislation.
Let's try and chop 40 to 50 percent of out of every spending bill that comes up, uh starting with the hundred and twelfth Congress in January.
The amount of w and people say, oh, well, it's not a big deal.
You know, let's just what does it matter if we give them eight billion or seven billion or six billion or four billion?
What does it matter?
What does it matter?
It matters because we haven't got any billions.
There are no billions.
All the billions have been spent.
The billions that these guys are going to be getting have to be borrowed from China.
China's got billions.
They can it doesn't matter to the Chinese whether they lend us eight billion, seven billion, six billion, or four billion, but it matters to your kids and your grandchildren.
We've spent all our billions.
There are no more American billions.
They've been spent.
So we have to borrow this money from somebody to give it to the firemen.
So all these all Senator Coburn taught us, taught anyone who is paying attention here an important lesson.
The amount of waste in almost any piece of legislation that comes up uh in the national legislature of the United States is extraordinary.
Uh and I would like to see him apply this method to every other bill that comes up in the 11th Congress.
Uh let's see if we can't chop 40 to 50 percent of the costs out of every single one of them.
We were gonna give money we don't have to trial lawyers, to trial lawyers to make us feel good about honoring America's heroes.
Oh, America's heroes, the trial lawyers.
Let's give them an extra four billion.
It's only a billion.
It's a billion is is just a billion isn't anything now since we started talking about trillion, as long as it doesn't involve trillions, we don't have to think about it.
No, you do.
You do.
Every single bill that comes up is like this.
You could easily chop forty to fifty percent of the cost of it out of there if you were if you if you had that bulldog attitude that Senator Coburn uh demonstrated over the over this thing.
It's a tough thing to do.
This was an uh there was large amount of emotional manipulation about this.
Nobody wants to be mean about America's heroes, but this country is busted.
It's got no more billions.
It's got no more billions.
So if we don't get serious about this stuff, then there aren't going to be any more heroes.
Because fire fire departments won't be able to afford to hire firemen.
There won't be first responders.
So if we don't get serious about this, if we don't get serious about this, we will just slide off the cliff.
So that's the good news from the lame duck session.
Is if Senator Coburn can do this when the 112th Congress takes over in January, we may still have a sporting chance.
But if we're not serious about the spending, there ain't gonna be any more America.
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Let's go to Scott in Fort Knox, Kentucky, where they they keep the last three bars of gold in the United States.
Scott, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, uh great to be able to call in.
Yeah, I'd like to uh you know, mention, you know, that uh educator.
Right.
China wanted to save all that money on educ and uh on military spending.
That's right.
Well well, you know, it would also that would also save a lot on education spending.
See, after after all those people that hate us, you know, s you know, made Sharia law kick in, we'd spend half the money on education because we wouldn't have to educate the girls.
That's right.
We we could be like win-win.
Yeah, we could be like Waziristan, where the girls uh aren't allowed to uh uh aren't allowed to go to school, uh and Kandahar, where I believe even under uh even under the US Imperium, we're so culturally uh sensitive that uh that a lot of the girls there aren't showing up at school uh anymore.
And by the way, uh and you don't even have to go all the way to Kandahar or Waziristan.
In Yorkshire, England, huge numbers of girls disappear from the schools every year and get shipped back to marry cousins they've never seen in Mirpur in uh in Pakistan.
So you're right, we could actually halve the education budget just by rendering us ourselves defenseless.
Now this is thinking outside the box, Scott.
Just by in other words, just by eliminating the army so so that foreign invaders can take over the United States and we could halve the education budget because they wouldn't allow the girls to go to school.
You're you're now you're now you really are looking at the question from both sides.
I think Shannon would approve.
That's uh that's that's that's a good way to think.
Thank you for your call.
Let's go to Greg in Brighton, Florida.
Greg, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hey how are you doing, sir?
I'm doing great.
How are you?
That's good.
I'm trying to do some grocery shopping and I was lifting on my way here.
And the lady that got on there that was an educator.
That's right.
She just can I say made me mad Well I I don't know whether that meets the approval of the National Educational Association, but I think you can still just about uh you can say she may why did she make you mad, Greg?
She was saying that, you know uh we educators uh you know we're beh not behind uh war and things like that.
I'm not behind war either but I'm behind this country as far as keeping our peace here you know and trying to educate kids.
I I teach second grade.
Right I teach second grade in my first week of school I had students threaten to throw a desk at me in second grade.
Right.
And I'm thinking where are parents?
Right.
Where are parents who are supposed to be raising their children.
No, that's true.
There's a ton of that in the education system, in part because we have broken families.
And a lot of people, a lot of children are not, by the time they start in kindergarten or first grade, aren't really socialized enough to attend schools.
But that's really not the job of a teacher.
A teacher shouldn't have to sort of function as a kind of kindergarten cop.
A teacher in a functioning education system should be able to teach their charges the skills, that will enable them to compete with these math geniuses being cranked out in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
So i you've got to be able to have some kind of basic uh socialization before you can even get on to the real stuff there, Greg.
And and my job is to teach.
My job is not to raise children.
No.
Okay.
And and people don't I mean I'm sorry and I no I'm not gonna say I'm sorry because I don't think parents realize nowadays they get rid of their kids, you know, let the teacher handle it.
That's not our job.
No, no, that's true, Greg, and thanks for your call and Merry Christmas to you.
But you know, the problem with Shannon's approach to things is that this is how, in the absence of any kind of parental environment, millions and millions of children are being raised in this vacuum.
You know, war is never the answer.
War is never the answer.
How about if the question is, how did the United States of America achieve its independence?
If you genuinely believe that war is never the answer, how are you...
you even going to be able to teach your children the founding narrative of this country and if you can't teach your children the founding narrative of this country by the time they graduate from twelfth grade are they are they actually going to understand what it is, what it means to be American and and that is why uh I mean I I I don't want to I don't want to beat up on Shannon.
She was like very pleasant they often are the these kind of people often are they've got all the nice bumper stickers they they drive around with the like the coexist thing that's got the gay the it's got the little gay symbol and it's got the Muslim crescent and it's got the Star of David and all the rest of it but but they don't actually think about what that's easy to say if you're if you're just teaching uh some sheesy little middle school uh on on the edge of a college town in uh Vermont but what does it actually mean?
When you stick the gay guy from the gay symbol up next to the big shot imam with the crescent symbol on the coexist sticker it's a whole other it's a whole other thing that's going on there.
And to to to this is this is where she's not looking at life from both sides now.
It's the it's the impossibility of empathizing.
There was a lady called Pippa Bacca.
She was an Italian performance artist.
And she decided to dress up as a bride and and walk to Palestine for world peace from Italy.
Her body was found in a ditch uh off the side of the road in Turkey.
She had been brutally gang raped and murdered because her vapid I've looked at life from both sides now, her vapid illusions met reality.
And that that is the that is the point.
That empathy, genuine empathy, is one thing, the ability to understand.
But the most important thing you can understand is that not the the whole planet does not think like an NPR listening lady from suburban Massachusetts.
That's the most important thing you can figure out.
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That's actually what the uh this whole federal app uh regulation system is about, because they're saying it's it's unfair that when you buy an app, it will be for this product but not for that product.
So they want to create a federal regulatory regime whereby apps would have to work on on everything.
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Mr. Snardley has got it in one.
Affirmative aption.
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I got this fax machine in nineteen eighty three.
Why can't I use the Rush Limbaugh app on it?
The government should do something.
It's outrageous.
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Um the uh I was talking about the spending uh spending bill uh here and uh talking about the the government's uh spending.
The James Zadroga nine eleven Health and Compensation Act is a very good example of that.
Uh the uh the the billions of dollars that uh that were chopped out of it by Senator Coburn, he was right to do that.
He was right to do that.
We can't just round up everything to the nearest ten billion dollars or the nearest hundred billion dollars.
At some point we gotta stop.
Uh and at some point we've got to actually figure out if we're gonna do this stuff, what does it cost?
What does it really cost?
Because this whole uh this whole money no object business now.
Nobody thinks that's what happens when government does stuff, by the way.
Uh if you if you uh that's if if you go to a movie theater, uh y whether you see the movie depends on whether the the ticket is nine bucks or it's ninety bucks or it's nine thousand bucks.
Yet somehow we've got the idea that with public money, which means your money, uh then somehow you can just stick a big bunch of zeros on the end of it, and it's all way above our head, and we shouldn't really think about it, and there's no point and and let's face it, you know, let's face it, these billions and trillions come from somewhere, don't they?
I mean, They wouldn't be spending all this money if they didn't have it.
It's probably in like in a big room in the in the basement of the Capitol.
So they're being very responsible about it.
So why should we worry our pretty little heads about whether it's a million or a billion or a trillion?
Let's just leave it to sensible, prudent people like Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank to figure out whether we need eight billion or thirty billion uh or or three trillion dollars for this.
And that way has uh uh driven this country off a fiscal cliff.
Um I I make the point that within five years we will be spending more on interest payments on the debt than on the military.
You know, Shannon, let's go back to Shannon, because like Shannon is the theme of the day.
So Shannon was saying, why do we spend so much on the military?
Well, if you don't like what we're spending on the military, we're spending more than that.
By the year 2015, we will be spending more than that on interest payments on the debt.
America is responsible for forty-three percent of the planet's military spending.
We are gonna be spending more than that on interest payments on the debt.
That's not paying down the debt.
That's like when you get your MasterCard statement at the end of the month, and you you can't actually pay off any of the debt.
So you just pay the little interest, the little interest thing at at the bottom of it.
That's all you can afford to pay.
The debt stays the same and rolls on accumulating interest the following month and the following month and the following month, but you just pay off that month's interest.
The interest, the annual interest on American debt will be more than the cost of the U.S. military.
Now let nudge that nudge that thought on.
Nudge that thought on about.
Uh about fifty percent of our debt is held by foreigners, and about half of that is held by the Chinese.
Uh and when you look at what the Chinese spends on its military, which is a little shy of under um a uh a hundred billion dollars, uh, we are basically gonna be funding the entire cost of the Chinese military.
Shannon doesn't like the United States Army.
Don't worry about that, Shannon.
I'm in favor of you cutting military spending.
So so why don't we put the U.S. military budget on the back burner and just not have Shannon, poor old Shannon, an educator, is paying the cost of the Chinese military.
When the Chinese retake Taiwan, uh Shannon will have paid for it.
We will be funding the entire cost of the Chinese military.
And by the way, that's if interest uh rates stay in the toilet.
If interest rates were to resume uh their average level of the last twenty years, China would be able to uh quadruple the size of its military and stick Shannon with the tab for it.
This is insane.
There is no example in history of one uh great superpower funding its successor.
This is this is unprecedented.
Nobody has ever done this before.
Nobody the Roman Empire didn't say, hey, hey, I know, you know, the ro let's have some more bathhouses, and we'll borrow the money from the barbarians.
The barbarians, oh sure they're painting their faces with woad and and they're wearing animal skins, but maybe they've got some primitive currency uh back in the cave.
So we'll borrow, we'll borrow uh some money from the barbarians to fund more lavish bathhouses uh for the Roman Empire.
No, they didn't do that.
This is unprecedented, where a where a superpower has funded its successor.
Uh and uh and and there is uh there is no logic for it.
And if Shannon wants to sh Shannon wants to look at clouds from both sides now, look at it how it must seem if you're in the Chinese Politburo, Shannon.
Picture you empathize, empathize with a minor member of the Chinese Politburo.
You're laughing your head off.
If we do not do something uh about this spending, not by you know, when you see all these numbers, people say, oh, by the year 2050 this, by the year 2080 that.
No, if we don't do something about this in the next two to five years, it we will pass the point of no return.
And that's why it's not enough to say, oh, the James Sedroga nine eleven Health and Compensation Act for first responders, America's heroes.
What does it matter?
Why would you mean spirited Republicans care whether it's four billion dollars or eight billion dollars?
Because we don't have any of those billion dollars uh uh dollars.
We got nothing.
We got nothing.
We're tapped out.
We're tapped out.
So we gotta figure out a way uh to if we're gonna do this stuff, that it's it's gotta that the ticket item has got to be we gotta be like Walmart.
We're gonna have big government, it's gotta be big Walmart government.
It's gotta be everything has got to have the lowest price tag on it that you can come up with.
Otherwise there is simply no future on it.
Now look at this.
This is again another bill thing nobody you know, President Obama says to us, Well, now I've got the gays in the military thing.
That was my big priority, but now I'm gonna turn to the economy.
So we've settled the gay question, okay?
Uh maybe he'd have turned to the economy if there'd been a gaze in the economy uh ish angle to it.
Are gays getting enough from the stimulus?
Maybe if if uh we'd brought that question up, he'd have looked at uh he'd looked at the economy a little earlier.
If there was a gay angle to it.
But he didn't.
He was like he was uh preoccupied with the the priority of the United States was the gaze in the military thing.
But now we've got that settled, he's now gonna turn to the economy.
That's awfully sporting of you, Mr. President.
Now he says uh the other thing they were preoccupied about was uh a sweeping bill aimed at making food safer.
Uh this passed on Tuesday.
And what does that mean, making food safer?
It would require it would require larger farms and food manufacturers to prepare detailed food safety plans and tell the food and drug administration how they are working to keep their food safe at different stages.
Oh, I see, I see.
So now, like a farmer, a farmer, he gets up in the morning and he's gotta like pick his crops uh and he's gotta milk the cows, and then when he gets back to the old farmhouse and he's uh had a had a time breaking his back out in the field, the hot sun beating down on him, and he's put the cows to bed, done the uh in the cow shed in the evening, he gets back to the farmhouse, and he's gotta fill in government paperwork till midnight before he gets up at four in the morning, start milking the cows all over again.
The costs on business of federal regulation are insane.
That that this is this again sucks money out of the productive part of the uh productive part of the economy.
A neighbor of mine, he uh he sugars in New Hampshire, you know, maple syrup, maple syrup.
He does that.
You tap a tree and you string a a line from the trees in the woods, uh, and they all come to to your sugar house, which is boiling away, and you make fantastic new Hampshire maple syrup, which is way better uh than uh the pansy maple syrup from Vermont.
So if you got a choice, get the New Hampshire maple syrup.
It's man's maple syrup, not that stuff they got in Vermont.
So uh he gets a thing, he gets a thing out of the blue.
Has his have his sap lines been secured against terrorism?
Right.
Of course.
Why didn't we think about this?
Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda's we heard the other day, are targeting American salad bars.
Now they're apparently also targeting maple syrup.
You think it's you think it's confectioner's sugar, but it's anthrax on there.
Uh on your pancake.
Uh this is there's no way.
These lines snake through woods from maple tree to maple tree to maple tree.
Miles and miles of woods.
How can you secure that against terrorism?
One day, one day one well well, Mr. Snowdley is proposing a dome, yes.
And yes, and we could have done that.
We could have had missile defense if uh if uh if the terrorists had tried to take out our uh our uh our maple trees, we could have had missile defense, but we signed the deal with the Russians, so we can't we can't use defensive technology now.
So one day you're gonna be sitting there watching TV and there will be a huge huge explosion and there will be a huge boiling maple cloud over the United States of America because Al Qaeda have weaponized the maple syrup supply.
This is what your your government is is sending mail to little uh little maple uh sugaring operations all across the Northeast saying, have you have you ensured that your saplines are safe against terrorism?
Uh yeah, the saps are us.
We're the only saps for putting up with this.
This is the death of America.
We need less spending, less government, less regulation, because they don't need to blow up our maple syrup.
They just need to sit and wait, and they'll get all that maple syrup for themselves just by letting us spend ourselves to death.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more to come.
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Let's go to Fred in Homa, Alaska.
Fred, thanks for waiting.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Pleasure to be here again.
I've always enjoyed listening to you.
You're a breath of fresh air.
Well, thank you.
You know about fresh air in Alaska.
That's one thing you got a lot of.
We've got a lot of it.
Grateful for it.
Well, one thing I want to say, we didn't have educators when I grew up, we had teachers.
And we were proud to salute the flag, and it frightened me and to think I might have to defend my country one day, but that's the way it was.
Things have definitely changed.
What I called about, and I talked to you earlier this year about Obama is not a dumb or incompetent president.
Unfortunately, he is getting more accomplished to harm this country and damage this country and putting things in place that are going to harm us for years to come.
And my question is we need to focus on how to reverse this things, not what he's not getting done or you know, we we we focus on all these little things going on in Congress and this, that, and the other, but the problems, the huge problems that are being created by this uh socialistic and uh communist idea that our government and czars and everybody has and what they're working behind the scenes.
How can we reverse this stuff because we're in for a rough ride?
Well, I I would say that you're right.
Uh it isn't all about Congress and it isn't all about the the process in the uh national legislature.
I use the word national because this isn't what's being done isn't federal.
Obama is a great centralizer.
He thinks that if uh if there's a problem in uh in Maine, you should have exactly the same law to deal with in in Hawaii.
He doesn't believe in federalism.
So an important part of this fight back is going to be at the state level.
Uh the i i i w the the fight that the states are waging against Obamacare is uh as important as anything that's going to be done in Congress.
But there is one thing that I think i is a process issue and that is important, and that these we should not have two thousand page omnibus bills anymore.
Now, I'm I've been told by uh various uh members of the incoming Congress that that's gonna happen.
That that uh because say what you like about the old days, uh, but when uh George the third uh imposed the T Act, the T Act was about tea.
You didn't read through it uh for for f 1500 pages and find that uh somewhere deep in the uh in the back of it there was like a two billion uh slush fund uh to some uh acorn subsidiary out in Illinois, which is the way which is the way the T Act was about tea.
There was nothing but tea in it.
Uh and I think that's the I think that's the way we should uh we should go now.
Uh we we should insist because it's an affront against uh it's uh an affront against responsible government.
The people should be able to follow what's going on, and they cannot.
And that's and that's why uh regaining control of the process from uh the sharks like Harry Reid, uh who whose contempt for the idea of responsible government is is breathtaking.
So that that side of the process is important, Fred.
Well, you know, our Constitution only had what was it, thirteen pages or something.
Right.
And you have these incredibly huge bills, and I totally agree with you, and it's so corrupt.
Everything is so upside down.
We have five hundred and I forget the exact number in Congress and the Senate that run this country into the ground year after year, decade after decade, and everybody goes, Oh, it's just the government.
Yeah, no, I know, I know.
Don't vote, it only encourages them and all and and all the rest of it.
No, that would be fine.
But what w the that kind of thinking would have worked in 1900 in uh William McKinley's day, when what happened in Washington had absolutely minimal impact on uh anybody living in Homer, Alaska.
It's changed now.
The federal government, as we've just seen, uh is in s is regular is insinuating itself into every aspect of your life, and that is to be rolled back by states, uh, but it also has to be uh it i the the way you do that is you change the climate outside Washington so you make it easy for uh craven legislators uh just to do the politically expedient thing, which also happens to be the right thing.
Again, that's a Milton Friedman lesson.
Make it easy for the wrong people to do the right thing.
Uh gotta run, uh, Fred, because we are one of the last profitable operations in the United States of America, and we have got a break for an EIB profit center.
Mordecan.
Mark Stein, in for a Rush on the uh on the EIB network.
Uh I don't even understand this.
The California Department of Public Health is conducting an investigation uh at the Betty Ford Clinic.
Something improper is going on uh at the uh at the Betty Ford Clinic uh that uh Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan, um, is she still in there?
She got into a fight with a Betty Ford Clinic worker, but I don't think that's why the California Department of Public Health is investigating them.
I think it's the Betty Ford uh clinic is serving drinks with dinner or something.
Uh but uh at any rate, there's nothing nothing's nothing is sacred anymore.
Uh Mark Styled for Rush on the EIB Network.
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