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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 stuck in on page 2073 of the bill.
	But that's tough on me, but it's not too bad.
	I love being here.
	Christmas Eve, we will have Best of Rush.
	That's tomorrow.
	Join us over the weekend for three hours of EIB approved Christmas music.
	And then I believe Mark Belling is in on Monday.
	Is that right, Mark?
	Mark Belling's in on Monday.
	And then I think I'm back a little later in the week.
	I don't want to get too hung up on forthcoming details.
	After yesterday's show, I got a couple of emails saying, why didn't I say anything?
	Speaking of the poor Congolese pygmies who were the victims of both sides in the civil wars, a couple of people wrote to me yesterday.
	They said, why didn't you have any news on the Uyghurs, who are the Chinese Muslims that were sprung from Gitmo?
	And for some reason, every time I was doing this show, there was always some news story involving Uyghurs in the news.
	And we didn't have any Uyghur Wednesday stories yesterday because there weren't any.
	But I forgot to mention the last time I was in Bermuda for a while, and I came within a smidgenette of actually seeing these Uyghurs that Obama sprung from Gitmo and dropped on Bermuda.
	There were four of them.
	And he did this deal with Bermuda to take the because the Chinese didn't want the Uyghurs back from Gitmo.
	So he released them to Bermuda.
	And my Bermudian friend Akeelah, she said to me 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, which sounds like a kind of vocal group from the 50s, doesn't it?
	It's like the four aces, the four lads, the four Uyghurs, the four Uyghurs, the great new, hot, new Chinese Muslim vocal group.
	But the four Uyghurs, she saw them, she was driving through St. George's in Bermuda, and all four of them crossed the street in front of her like the Beatles on the Abbey Road crosswalk.
	And so she sees me 20 minutes later, and she goes, I just saw the Uyghurs.
	They looked very unhappy.
	They didn't look as if they were enjoying their exile to Bermuda by Obama.
	But at any rate, I was mad.
	I missed the Uyghurs actually seeing the four Obama Uyghurs by about 20 minutes.
	But my friend Aquila saw them in Bermuda, in St. George's, Bermuda.
	So I don't know whether that's their living, but that's where they're living.
	Yeah, I miss my Uyghur window of opportunity close.
	But if you're in St. George's Bermuda, look out for the Uyghurs.
	Now, we were talking about the great Obama comeback.
	And you can have two different views on this, I think.
	But what I think is disappointing is that in return for getting a two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts, the Republicans did not exact, I think, a high enough price for some of this other stuff.
	Yes, they stopped the Obama-Nibbles 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 stopping spending and about reversing spending and about cutting agencies and about closing programs and about firing bureaucrats.
	Because the bottom line is that if government continues to spend at this rate, then it's over, then it's over, because we're just going to slide off the cliff.
	And that's why, as I said, 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 withdrew that bill.
	Now, you take this James Zadroga 9-11 bill.
	This is the bill that passed yesterday.
	And it's a very difficult thing even for Republicans to talk against because, you know, it's about fire.
	It's about firemen, basically.
	It's about first responders at 9-11, America's heroes.
	And who wants to go up against them?
	Nobody wants it.
	It's a thankless task.
	They pounded into those buildings on a grim, bleak, dark Tuesday morning, 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 and the State Department admitting those terrorists to kill all those Americans on visa forms that were filled in with joke answers.
	If you look at the address, like those 9-11 terrorists, there's a question that says, where are you going to be staying in the United States?
	And they'd put, and one of them said, holiday in America.
	And those guys, your government admitted those guys into this country on the basis 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.
	Your government failed on that day, and the only government officials who didn't fail were municipal officials, the fire department, pounding up the steps of those buildings.
	So we have now the James Zadroga 9-11 Health and Compensation Act because people got ill.
	So it covers 71,000 first responders, including from 24 from Wyoming, 24 from Wyoming.
	That would seem to me a statistically improbable number of first responders from Wyoming who were taken ill by what they did at 9-11, presumably not on that day, of course, because there were no planes that day.
	So it took some while to get from Wyoming to New York City in the aftermath of 9-11.
	So people are getting sick.
	We have to help them.
	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 9-11.
	Nevertheless, you know, they're America's heroes.
	So let's just, you can see the way the legislators are thinking.
	Nobody wants to hold this thing up.
	Let's just sign a bill to give compensation to America's heroes and move on because it's a thankless task, a thankless task.
	It was $8 billion.
	They chopped it down to $7 billion.
	Then they chopped it down to $6 billion and then they chopped it down to $4 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 potential waste in it.
	For example, he capped the lawyers' fees.
	Everybody thinks this $8 billion was going to the 71,000 first responders.
	And by the way, you do the math on that.
	These are public service unions who already have way better health care than you.
	They've got some of the best health care packages on the planet.
	But nevertheless, we were going to divide $8 billion between 71,000 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 it was going to be party time for trial lawyers.
	So he capped legal fees in this bill at 10%.
	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 we don't want to get caught up in this.
	So let's just pass the bill and move on because there's nothing to be said for standing up to a bill like this.
	You'll just look like a mean-spirited right-wing hatemonger.
	Let's take what Senator Coburn did as a good object lesson in the way American legislating now works in the 21st century.
	He basically chopped the cost of this bill in half.
	And it's not going to affect the health care of any of these firemen.
	It's not going to affect the kind of health treatment these first responders get.
	They're still going to 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, 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 30 to 50 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 Zedroger 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to every other piece of legislation.
	Let's try and chop 40 to 50 percent out of every spending bill that comes up starting with the 112th Congress in January.
	The amount of what people say, oh, well, it's not a big deal.
	You know, let's just, what does it matter if we give them 8 billion or 7 billion or 6 billion or 4 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.
	It doesn't matter to the Chinese whether they lend us 8 billion, 7 billion, 6 billion, or 4 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 was paying attention here an important lesson.
	The amount of waste in almost any piece of legislation that comes up in the national legislature of the United States is extraordinary.
	And I would like to see him apply this method to every other bill that comes up in the 112th Congress.
	Let's see if we can't chop 40 to 50 percent of the cost out of every single one of them.
	We were going to 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 4 billion.
	It's only a billion.
	A billion 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 40 to 50 percent of the cost of it out of there if you had that bulldog attitude that Senator Coburn demonstrated over this thing.
	It's a tough thing to do.
	There was a 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 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 going to be any more America.
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	It was the rush before Christmas.
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	Let's go to Scott in Fort Knox, Kentucky, where they keep the last three bars of gold in the United States.
	Scott, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Hey, it's great to be able to call in.
	Yeah, I'd like to mention that educator wanted to save all that money on military spending.
	That's right.
	Well, you know, that would also save a lot on education spending.
	See, after all those people that hate us, 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 could be like a win-win.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we could be like Waziristan, where the girls aren't allowed to go to school and Kandahar, where I believe even under the U.S. Imperium, we're so culturally sensitive that a lot of the girls there aren't showing up at school anymore.
	And by the way, 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 Pakistan.
	So you're right.
	We could actually halve the education budget just by rendering ourselves defenseless.
	Now, this is thinking outside the box, Scott.
	In other words, just by eliminating the army, 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.
	Now you really are looking at the question from both sides.
	I think Shannon would approve.
	That's a good way to think.
	Thank you for your call.
	Let's go to Greg in Brightonton, 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.
	I left off.
	And the lady that got on there that was an educator.
	That's right.
	She just can I say made me mad?
	Well, I don't know whether that meets the approval of the National Educational Association, but I think you can still just.
	Why did she make you mad, Greg?
	She was saying that, you know, we educators, you know, we're not behind 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 teach second grade.
	Right.
	I teach second grade.
	In my first week of school, I had a student threaten to throw a desk at me in second grade.
	Right.
	And I'm thinking, where are parents?
	Where are parents that 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 school.
	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 you've got to be able to have some kind of basic socialization before you can even get onto the real stuff there, Greg.
	And my job is to teach.
	My job is not to raise children.
	No.
	Okay.
	And people don't, I mean, I'm sorry.
	And no, I'm not going to 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.
	Our job is to do that.
	No, no, that's.
	That's true.
	That's true, Greg.
	And thanks for your call.
	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 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 12th grade, are they actually going to understand what it is, what it means to be American?
	And that is why, I mean, I don't want to beat up on Shannon.
	She was like, very pleasant.
	They often are.
	These kinds of people often are.
	They've got all the nice bumper stickers.
	They drive around with the coexist thing that's got the gay, 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 just teaching some sheeshy little middle school on the edge of a college town in 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 thing that's going on there.
	And this is where she's not looking at life from both sides now.
	It's the impossibility of empathizing.
	There was a lady called Pippa Baca.
	She was an Italian performance artist.
	And she decided to dress up as a bride and walk to Palestine for world peace from Italy.
	Her body was found in a ditch 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 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 whole planet does not think like an NPR listening lady from suburban Massachusetts.
	That's the most important thing you can figure out.
	Oh, Christmas, Christmas, it's murder on the Rush Limbaugh fan.
	Wall-to-wall lame-duck guest hosts everywhere you go.
	Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
	But Rush may not be here, but if you go to rushlimbaugh.com, he did leave you a Christmas present.
	You can get the new Rush Limbaugh app for the iPhone and the iPad.
	What was it?
	Rush is saying he hadn't done one for the BlackBerry yet because he hasn't got a BlackBerry, so nuts to that.
	That's actually what this whole federal app regulation system is about because they're saying 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 everything.
	So if you affirmative action.
	Yes, that's right.
	Mr. Snurley has got it in one.
	Affirmative action.
	So because it's unfair.
	Like I've tried.
	I've tried to put, I've tried to use the Rush Limbaugh app on my fax machine and I'm getting nowhere with it, okay?
	And it's just not fair.
	I got this fax machine in 1983.
	Why can't I use the Rush Limbaugh app on it?
	The government should do something.
	It's outrageous.
	It's outrageous.
	Yeah, my Rotary Dial fax machine, just I can't get the Rush Limbaugh app to work on it.
	But if you've got pretty much anything more recent than that, if you've got like your iPhone or your iPad, go to the Apple Store.
	It's the number one app on there.
	And you'll be able to watch Rush live on the DittoCam from your iPhone or your iPad.
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	You'll get the whole Rush 24-7 experience direct on your iPhone.
	So just go to the Apple store and search for Rush or go to RushLimbaugh.com.
	As I said, it's murder, murder, murder this time of year because you've got all these Lame-O guest hosts all over the airwaves.
	But if you go to RushLimbaugh.com, it's like he's still there because there's tons of Rush content and you can figure out how to get hold of the Rush Limbaugh app.
	But don't worry, he is working on one for the BlackBerry and all the other stuff.
	And eventually he'll get to my 1983 fax machine too.
	And so we'll all be set up.
	I was talking about this spending bill here and talking about the government's spending.
	The James Zadroga 9-11 Health and Compensation Act is a very good example of that.
	The billions of dollars 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 $10 billion or the nearest $100 billion.
	At some point, we've got to stop.
	And at some point, we've got to actually figure out if we're going to do this stuff, what does it cost?
	What does it really cost?
	Because this whole money-no object business now, nobody thinks that's what happens when government does stuff, by the way.
	If you go to a movie theater, whether you see the movie depends on whether the ticket is $9 or it's $90 or it's $9,000.
	Yet somehow we've got the idea that with public money, which means your money, 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 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 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 $8 billion or $30 billion or $3 trillion for this.
	And that way has driven this country off a fiscal cliff.
	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 43% of the planet's military spending.
	We are going to 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 can't actually pay off any of the debt.
	So you just pay the little interest, the little interest thing 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, nudge that thought on.
	Nudge that thought on about.
	About 50% of our debt is held by foreigners, and about half of that is held by the Chinese.
	And when you look at what the Chinese spends on its military, which is a little shy of under $100 billion, we are basically going to 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 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, 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 rates stay in the toilet.
	If interest rates were to resume their average level of the last 20 years, China would be able to 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 great superpower funding its successor.
	This is unprecedented.
	Nobody has ever done this before.
	Nobody, the Roman Empire didn't say, hey, hey, I know, you know, 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 they're wearing animal skins, but maybe they've got some primitive currency back in the cave.
	So we'll borrow some money from the barbarians to fund more lavish bathhouses for the Roman Empire.
	No, they didn't do that.
	This is unprecedented, where a superpower has funded its successor.
	And there is no logic for it.
	And if Shannon wants to look at clouds from both sides now, look at how it must seem if you're in the Chinese Politburo, Shannon.
	Picture you empathize with a minor member of the Chinese Politburo.
	You're laughing your head off.
	If we do not do something 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, we will pass the point of no return.
	And that's why it's not enough to say, oh, the James Zedrogen 9-11 Health and Compensation Act for first responders, America's heroes.
	What does it matter?
	Why would you mean-spirited Republicans care whether it's $4 billion or $8 billion?
	Because we don't have any of those billion dollars.
	We got nothing.
	We got nothing.
	We're tapped out.
	We're tapped out.
	So we've got to figure out a way to, if we're going to do this stuff, that the ticket item has got to be, we've got to be like Walmart.
	If we're going to have big government, it's got to be big Walmart government.
	It's got to 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 going to turn to the economy.
	So we've settled the gay question, okay?
	Maybe he'd have turned to the economy if there'd been a gays in the economy-ish angle too.
	Are gays getting enough from the stimulus?
	Maybe if we'd brought that question up, he'd looked at the economy a little earlier, if there was a gay angle to it.
	But he didn't.
	He was preoccupied with the priority of the United States was the gays in the military thing.
	But now we've got that settled.
	He's now going to turn to the economy.
	That's awfully sporting of you, Mr. President.
	Now, he says the other thing they were preoccupied about was a sweeping bill aimed at making food safer.
	This passed on Tuesday.
	And what does that mean, making food safer?
	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 got to like pick his crops and he's got to milk the cows.
	And then when he gets back to the old farmhouse and he's 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 in the cow shed at evening, he gets back to the farmhouse and he's got to 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.
	This again sucks money out of the productive part of the economy.
	A neighbor of mine, he sugars in New Hampshire.
	You know, maple syrup, maple syrup.
	He does that.
	You tap a tree and you string a line from the trees in the woods and they all come to your sugar house, which is boiling away and you make fantastic New Hampshire maple syrup, which is way better than the pansy maple syrup from Vermont.
	So if you've got a choice, get the New Hampshire maple syrup.
	It's manned maple syrup, not that stuff they got in Vermont.
	So he gets a thing, he gets a thing out of the blue.
	Have his sap lines been secured against terrorism?
	Right, of course.
	Why didn't we think about this?
	Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda, as we heard the other day, are targeting American salad bars.
	Now they're apparently also targeting maple syrup.
	You think it's confectioner's sugar, but it's anthrax on there, on your pancake.
	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 day, well, Mr. Snowdley is proposing a dome.
	Yes.
	Yes, and we could have done that.
	We could have had missile defense.
	If the terrorists had tried to take out our maple trees, we could have had missile defense.
	But we signed the deal with the Russians, so we can't use defensive technology now.
	So one day, you're going to be sitting there watching TV, and there will be a 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 government is sending mail to little maple sugaring operations all across the Northeast saying, have you ensured that your sap lines are safe against terrorism?
	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 Steinin for Rush, more to come.
	Christmas at the EIB Network, Mark Steinin for Rush.
	Let's go to Fred in Homer, 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've got a lot of.
	We've got a lot of it and 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 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 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 socialistic and communist idea that our government and the 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 would say that you're right.
	It isn't all about Congress and it isn't all about the process in the 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 there's a problem in Maine, you should have exactly the same law to deal with it in Hawaii.
	He doesn't believe in federalism.
	So an important part of this fight back is going to be at the state level.
	The fight that the states are waging against Obamacare is as important as anything that's going to be done in Congress.
	But there is one thing that I think is a process issue and that is important, and that we should not have 2,000-page omnibus bills anymore.
	Now, I've been told by various members of the incoming Congress that that's going to happen.
	Because say what you like about the old days, but when George III imposed the Tea Act, the Tea Act was about tea.
	You didn't read through it for 1,500 pages and find that somewhere deep in the back of it, there was like a $2 billion slush fund to some Acorn subsidiary out in Illinois, which is the way the Tea Act was about tea.
	There was nothing but tea in it.
	And I think that's the way we should go now.
	We should insist because it's an affront against an affront against responsible government.
	The people should be able to follow what's going on, and they cannot.
	And that's why regaining control of the process from these sharks like Harry Reid, whose contempt for the idea of responsible government is breathtaking.
	So that side of the process is important, Fred.
	Well, you know, our Constitution only had, what was it, 13 pages or something.
	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 500 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 the rest of it.
	No, that would be fine.
	But that kind of thinking would have worked in 1900 in William McKinley's day when what happened in Washington had absolutely minimal impact on anybody living in Homer, Alaska.
	It's changed now.
	The federal government, as we've just seen, is insinuating itself into every aspect of your life.
	And that has to be rolled back by states, but it also has to be the way you do that is you change the climate outside Washington so you make it easy for craven legislators just to do the politically expedient thing, which also happens to be the right thing.
	Again, that's that Milton Friedman lesson: make it easy for the wrong people to do the right thing.
	Gotta run, 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.
	More to come, Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	I don't even understand this.
	The California Department of Public Health is conducting an investigation at the Betty Ford Clinic.
	Something improper is going on at the Betty Ford Clinic.
	That Lindsay Lohan, 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.
	I think it's their Betty Ford clinic is serving drinks with dinner or something.
	But at any rate, there's nothing is sacred anymore.
	Mark's cited for Rush on the EIB network.

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