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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	I snuck across the border in a uh snow plow truck from Montreal, broke down uh on the outskirts of New York City, and I just climbed out of the truck, here I am.
	All work great.
	Now we were talking in the pre in the uh previous hour about Mayor Bloomberg's claim that ninety-six percent ninety-six percent of New York City streets were now cleared.
	Here is a quote from Vito Terso, a spokesperson for the New York City Department of Sanitation.
	Quote, the Department does not categorize streets as cleared, unquote.
	So where Mayor Bloomberg gets this statistic that ninety-six percent of uh New York City streets have now been cleared, I don't know.
	But it's not from Vito Turso, the official spokesperson for uh the New York Department of Sanitation who says uh that they don't categorize streets as cleared.
	They categorize them.
	They monitor them for whether they've been plowed or salted.
	So in other words, uh they uh they check off the street if a plow has been down it.
	Whether it's actually cleared the street or just slammed into a Ford Explorer and ripped uh the doors off and then maybe totaled a uh a uh Honda Civic and a Toyota Corolla as it's backing out of the hole it's gotten itself into, or whether it's actually plowed the streets of the are now passable, we don't know, and neither does the uh New York City Department of Sanitation, because uh as a matter of policy, they don't categorize streets as cleared or uncleared.
	So the can do uh technocrat genius no labels mayor Michael Bloomberg, when he says the ninety-six percent of uh New York City streets are now cleared, is in fact inventing a measurement that his city does not use.
	Uh so we'll uh we'll we'll take a few more of your calls on that as the uh as the show progresses.
	By the way, I'll be here tomorrow.
	Rush uh best of rush show for for New Year's Eve.
	Uh but we're gonna uh go now to um Congressman uh Louis Gomot for the from the first uh district of uh Texas.
	Uh he was uh first elected in uh the two thousand four election and uh I believe the first Republican since uh reconstruction uh to be uh elected in uh in Texas.
	And um the Congressman has some uh interesting uh views on how things are shaping up uh for the uh hundred and twelfth Congress, which will be uh w which will be uh moving into town and taking over in a couple of days.
	We've all had a bit of a a shock at the uh the lame duck Congress uh and some of the things they did, and uh the consolation, I guess, for some of us is that things are gonna change when the one hundred and twelfth Congress gets going.
	Um are we right to be optimistic about how things are likely to go, Congressman?
	Uh Mark, it's great to be on with you.
	And it we're right to be optimistic, but people can't just uh put down uh their uh their marching orders.
	It's it they have got to continue pushing because as we saw in the lame duck session, things got very lame, and uh we had the agreement to the uh tax extension bill, and uh uh I was really shocked that to hear people saying on our side of the aisle, we have to do this now.
	This is our best leverage, because you know, in January all these other Republicans are coming.
	Pat McCotter said, that's like Custer saying we've got to attack the Indians now before we've got a lot more of us.
	Uh it didn't make sense.
	And so we had all the extra billions and billions of dollars in spending in the tax extender.
	And uh if we had said we're not agreeing to another thirteen months of um unemployment insurance, my gosh, if you've gone two years and haven't found a job yet, it's time to retrain you for some other job, not pay you another year not to work.
	And then some of the other uh uh port that was added into that bill, we didn't have to go along with that.
	We could have said we're gonna demand a clean bill.
	And if you don't give it to us now, we're gonna do it ourselves January fifth.
	And uh some say, well, but we won't have the leverage then with the sixty-three new uh net Republicans in the house and six in the Senate.
	We didn't have more leverage then.
	And I think if we'd stood strong, we would have gotten a better bill.
	So it just tells people that uh they're gonna have to be very vigilant, and of course that's what Jefferson said.
	That's that's the price of all this is eternal vigilance.
	Price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
	Now, you you didn't want just want to, you know, a couple of years continuation of the uh of the pre-existing tax rates, which everyone is touting as a big victory on things like corporate tax, uh, you think we should be thinking way bigger.
	Uh and and you uh and if I understand you correctly, you actually would like corporate uh as as a real stimulus to the economy, you'd like corporate tax scrapped.
	You you bet.
	And what really made me uh focus on that, uh of course Art Laffer has talked about that, and I I was able to sit down with Art a couple of months ago, and I said, shouldn't we drop that to fifteen or twelve percent?
	And he said, gosh, no, we ought to do away with it completely.
	And when I heard Donald Trump on Fox News saying if we slap a twenty-five percent tariff on everything we buy from China, it'll create jobs.
	Well, that's nuts.
	That'll create a a trade war we can't win.
	But then that's when I realized, you know, we've got a thirty-five percent tariff on every single item produced by American corporations.
	You eliminate that thirty-five percent tariff on everything American corporations sell here and abroad, you will have a job stimulus like nothing we've ever seen.
	And so one of the things I'm gonna be pushing this year is uh to whatever we've called, maybe your listeners uh have some uh suggestions, but whether it's a contract for jobs, where we go to international manufacturing firms and say, okay, if we eliminate our thirty-five percent corporate tax, how many jobs will you create in America?
	And when we get to our goal, whether it's half a million or a million, then we pass that through it and dare the president and the Senate not to allow these million new jobs.
	Now, just just to clarify, because you were pa comparing that thirty-five percent with um with China, but you don't even have to outsource things to China because when you compare it with uh European countries where where you supposedly uh Barack Obama and the Democrats want to take us to a Scandinavian style social democracy, these countries all have lower corporate tax rates than the United States does.
	Ireland has uh whatever it is, twelve and a half percent corporate tax rates.
	That's right.
	And and the the problem the problem here, Congressman, i isn't it that people somehow think that when you're taxing a corporation, you're not taxing a human being.
	That every there isn't a corporation can't pay tax.
	A corporation is a building, a corporation is articles of incorporation at the bottom of the desk draw.
	But physically, every dollar of tax that a corporation pays is fished out of the pocket of a real life flesh and blood human being, whether whether it's one of the owners or the employees or one of the customers of that corporation.
	You can't tax the other things.
	I love listening to you.
	Nobody fools you.
	It's it's one of the most insidious taxes there is because it convinces Americans, gee, you're not having to pay it.
	We got these mean, evil, greedy corporations paying this.
	Well, if they don't pass it on and make the individual customers pay it, then they don't stay in business.
	Of course the individuals pay that.
	And and obviously you're not fooled by it, but a lot of Americans are.
	Now now one other one other issue uh you've also been strong on, and this is this is how crazy the spending is in Washington, because nobody even noticed this because it was uh s stuck as one of the sort of low budget items between the all these uh trillion dollar uh stimulus and uh trillion dollar health care bills and everything, and that's the basically a four hundred billion dollar federal land grab.
	Uh it's amazing as we're sliding off the fiscal cliff.
	For some reason, the government of the United States is uh is uh having actually destroyed the real property market in this country is now buying massive amounts of federal land and taking it out of productive use.
	Why is this?
	Well, it's uh if you look at where they're buying the land, most of it's in Republican states.
	I don't know if they're thinking eventually there'll be no place for Republicans to live or not, but but it it's grabbing more land and when the federal government buys land or or or declares it unusable by individuals, uh like some of the uh the EPA laws allow and the uh invi endangered uh species allow.
	But when we take over land, it takes it off the local tax rolls, off the school tax rolls.
	It devastates the schools and and local government.
	And and it just gives the federal government more power.
	And people haven't been noticing, but those of us on natural resources that have over the last four years have watched the majority have probably not a single month goes by.
	We don't put more land off limit to drilling for oil and gas to mining.
	We put the second biggest source of uranium off limits a couple of years ago.
	I mean, the things we've been doing have been devastating to energy costs, and you're gonna see them go up.
	So I'm hoping that we're gonna be able to turn some of that around.
	But I just want to remind you, you know, so many think, oh, well, like Forrest Gump said, life is like a box of chocolates.
	Well, it's not, Mark.
	It's more like a jar of jalapenos, because what you do today can burn you in the rear tomorrow.
	Yeah, and and and when you're to t take it half a trillion dollars worth of land, and as you say, uh essentially from a kind of deluded view that nothing unpleasant uh needs to be done on your land anymore.
	We don't we don't need to drill for oil, we don't need to have a factory belching smoke.
	We can just turn the whole country into a nice, pristine, beautiful natural park.
	And so everyone thinks when you just gobbling up land like this that it's somehow a good thing.
	But in fact, we actually probably need uh a sort of 21st century equivalent of the homestead act, where we're giving this land to people who are actually prepared to do some wealth creation with it.
	Mark, I would love to work with you on putting together uh a new type of homestead law.
	I think it would be fantastic.
	And I know it drives the liberals crazy, but but why not give people an option?
	You don't have a job.
	How about we give you acreage and something to jump start uh a uh your job on your own land and let people get after it that way.
	Retrain them for other jobs.
	But uh I'd love to to hear your ideas and put something together on a new homestead bill.
	But the it a regular American, when you when you run out of money, what do you do?
	Well, you start looking around.
	What can I sell?
	You know, have a garage sale, have whatever.
	And not the federal government, boy, we just keep buying more and more land while we're more and more in debt.
	It doesn't make sense.
	And and if we went to what Rush talked about for the last 20 years, a zero baseline budget, no automatic increases, then that gets us so close to a balanced budget in a very short period, go back to a two thousand and six budget, and uh we're we're gonna be okay, but it's gonna take Americans demanding the Republicans, not go back on our promises, as has happened a number of times.
	As the old saying in Washington goes, no matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.
	People have got to stay cynical, and we have got to force the Republicans, and I'm one of us, but to keep our promises.
	Otherwise, uh we've seen too many times uh we didn't stay true to them.
	And I say we collectively, I've been beating my head against the wall as a number of members of Congress have.
	Now now you are you confident that the new committee chairs coming in in January uh got the message of November 2nd.
	Well, uh I don't know.
	We look at um uh the the people that the most conservative people that the Tea Party groups were pushing, and I know they're extremely frustrated and and uh close to an awful lot of them, and and they've made clear they're not sure that that's the case because more conservative people were not made chairs of the races they weighed in on didn't seem to make any difference.
	And you know, look at the look at what happened on the tax extender bill.
	You know, those were Republicans saying, yeah, we got to do this now.
	If it wasn't online for three days like we'd promised.
	We didn't require any of the things that we promised we were gonna start requiring.
	And so uh I I'm not sure.
	We're not off to a very good start here in the lame duck session.
	Democrats say it was the most productive lame duck session in history, and it probably was for them to have gotten more done then than they had the rest of the Congress.
	So you're you're worried we may alre that the the Republican victors may already be drifting back into a kind of two thousand four, two thousand five mindset.
	Yes, and and the Tea Party folks are noticing.
	I mean, one email I got from one of the national leaders said, you know, there's an awful lot of rumblings about starting a new political party, and and this leader doesn't want to do that.
	But uh I'm very concerned if if our folks think that we can do business as usual, they're in for a rude awakening.
	And I do get tickled a little bit when I hear our leaders saying these Democrats are so stupid they don't get it.
	They lost the majority and then they elected the same leaders that that were leading when they lost the majority.
	And I'm thinking, well, do you not remember 2006 and 2008 when we lost the majority and then lost we we elected the same leaders each time, so uh I don't think we're one to talk in that area either.
	Yeah, no, nobody wants that 2006 Republican Party back, uh Congressman.
	You you keep holding the uh the the feet to the fire there in Washington.
	Uh that's Congressman Louis Gomez.
	He's uh there in Tyler, Texas at the moment, but he'll be back in Washington for the dawn of uh the hundred and twelfth Congress.
	Uh thanks uh thanks very much for speaking uh to us, Congressman.
	Oh, and by the way, here's uh here's a statistic to bear in mind.
	The one hundred and eleventh Congress ran up more debt than the first hundred U.S. Congresses combined.
	Uh that's the spectacular rate uh at which uh the uh the hundred and eleven Congress dug us into an ever deeper hole.
	In other words, to solve America's crisis, we needed to make the hole twice as big and dig it twice as fast.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, we got lots more to come.
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	All right.
	Yeah, we are live.
	Uh the Rush Limbaugh Show, live from Northern New Hampshire for the first ever time in the history of radio.
	No one has ever attempted to do a live national radio show from this far north in the state of New Hampshire before.
	Uh we needed an extra piece, uh extra long piece of wet string, but it's holding up so far, so everything everything's working.
	On the front page of my local paper, the Caledonian Record this morning, is a beautiful picture of Mount Washington, uh Mount Washington's Alpenglow, as they call it, the shadow of dusk creeps up the slopes of Mount Washington, uh showing the summit all covered in snow.
	It's amazing.
	It looks just like Seventh Avenue uh in New York City, but with fewer upturned uh band and hot dog carts and ambulances stuck in it.
	But otherwise you couldn't tell the difference.
	Mount Washington, Seventh Avenue in New York.
	We were talking about uh Mayor Bloomberg uh and his uh assertion that ninety-six percent of streets have been cleared, uh, and then pointed out, of course, that the sanitation agency actually doesn't have a category for cleared streets, so he may just be winging it there.
	Uh but uh I'll uh uh I it's important to understand here that this is what happens when government gets so big.
	Forty years ago, 43 one, 42 years ago, 1969, February the 9th, 1969, uh Mayor John Lindsay uh got clobbered by a snowstorm.
	Uh and uh it it w it why it damaged his uh his his mayoralty and his uh and his office and his term in office and all the rest of it.
	But what's inter what's interesting about this snowstorm is exactly the same days.
	The uh the snow fell on Sunday uh February the 9th, 1969.
	By Wednesday, the same day the snow started falling this time, and by Wednesday, that's to say now, uh today, the schools, streets, subways, airports, other uh infrastructure were back on the way to normal.
	For three days the city was in a state of near paralysis, and it totaled his reputation uh as a mayor.
	Uh and uh there were it was criticism of uh the neglect of snow removal and all the rest of it.
	Forty years on, 40 years on, things are even worse.
	Uh and I I think there is a lesson here.
	There is the the the big lesson here is that the more government tries to do, the less it actually can do.
	You know, this is where I don't agree with Michael Moore, uh, but this this is where he got something he understood something very basic uh in his ludicrous film uh about 9-11 when he showed that uh uh part of uh that clip of George W. Bush reading out my pet goat uh to those school kids in Florida.
	Uh and the uh uh and he liked it uh when Osama saw the video uh the bootleg video of Michael Moore's film in the back of the cave uh in Waziristan he liked it so much that uh uh Osama put it in some little message of his he mocked the president for reading out my pet goat.
	Now what's what's uh what's at issue there is not what Michael Moore thinks it is.
	It's that the the defense of the borders and the security of the borders and the uh and the immigration visas on which those guys were admitted to kill thousands of Americans is the responsibility of the President.
	But the president is not the national school superintendent-in-chief.
	What's wrong with my pet goat is not how well Bush read it, but the fact that the president of the United States should not be the school superintendent-in-chief of the United States of America.
	Yes, your undocumented anchorman sitting in for us.
	At the top of the show, I made a musical allusion to New York, New York.
	What was it I said?
	I want to wake up in a city that never ploughs and uh I've been getting uh bombarded with zillions of New York New York uh uh parodies uh since then uh Greg Sanderson Greg Sanderson emailed me I think he's got this up on his uh website or his Facebook page or whatever uh his one begins start spreading the salt I'm stranded today basically when you got Mayor Bloomberg running your town these things write yourself uh write themselves.
	Let's go to Ken in Lavonia, Michigan.
	Ken, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Yeah Merry Christmas to everybody out there.
	Yeah merry Kwanzaa to you too, Ken.
	Great to have you with us.
	Yeah, a news story that I keep hearing today.
	I keep talking about that there's a good chance that by summertime we might be seeing the price of gas shoot up to possibly $5 a gallon.
	Right.
	Now, if this happens, this will be a end-of-the-year Christmas present for Barack Obama, the Democrats, because in interviews given by President Obama as well as other Democrats, such as uh Nancy Pelosi, I've heard uh Debbie Stabenow and John Conyers uh they've made comments that they thought that the price of gas that we had up to this point was actually low.
	Yes.
	And that it would be a positive thing if we could get the price of gas uh to be in line with Europe or even as high as uh eight dollars a gallon.
	Yeah it's got a waste well they helped they helped them uh sell the uh electric car.
	Right, right.
	So this is this is the thinking.
	What's the problem with five dollars a gas when uh President Obama has said that you you know you guys just can't go on heating your homes at seventy two degrees and driving your SUVs uh and devastating the planet with it and uh you y now we've heading towards European sized government.
	It's appropriate that we have uh European sized gasoline prices.
	So it all it all comes in.
	It all fits in it's it's all of a piece.
	This this also gets by the way uh to Ben Bernanke and his uh whatever it's called the uh quantitative qu quantitative easing where he pumps in a uh trillion dollars of cash uh into the economy uh because he says we've got no need to worry about inflation.
	What about if you drive to work?
	Uh what about if you buy food?
	The transportation food has gone up because the transportation costs of food uh have gone up.
	Uh people who are not Ben Bernanke or who are not Timothy Geithner spend a big chunk of their weekly paycheck uh on uh on on gas and food and gas and food uh are both uh going up uh have both gone up fairly dramatically.
	Five bucks a gallon is uh i is not so unusual.
	Not when you look at no what not when you look at the world that is being built for us uh where as uh we were talking about with the Congressman earlier, uh the United States takes land out of productive use and says you can't drill for oil.
	You can't use it for your energy needs.
	Uh so instead uh we have to import more and more oil.
	We're now competing for that oil with the Chinese.
	The Chinese are basically every African country that's got oil in.
	The Chinese are gobbling up.
	The Chinese, by the way, are the biggest investors in the biggest new oil field post invasion in Iraq.
	What was all that stuff that the old the the smelly old hippies demonstrating on the Mail said oh no blood for oil, no blood for oil.
	It's our blood, but the Chinese are getting the oil.
	What's what kind of deal is uh what kind of deal is that you're absolutely right that I think in uh what's going to happen with the uh five dollars uh five dollars gas uh five dollars a gallon gas is not so out of it as you might think.
	Let's go to art in Donner's Grove, Illinois, the next domino to fall after California and New York.
	Art, is Donnersgrove one of those spendaholic parts of Illinois, or do you have reasonably responsible government there still?
	No, we absolutely are spending our way right into grandchildren's purses.
	I just was going to topic, but you mentioned Mayor Jan Lindsay.
	We had a more interesting thing unfold here in Chicago in 1979 when old Mandely died, they elected the Landik, and we had a hell of a snowstorm in 1979, which precipitated Jane Byrne to run, who defeated the Landik.
	who uh which laid around Byrne lost to uh Washington which led the council wars uh well Harold Washington who once told a reporter uh you're gonna get a mouthful of something uh you don't really want uh you had said uh who was the lifelong Democrat uh uh run as a Republican so interesting happened.
	Yeah that that's right the snowstorm.
	Yeah the seventy nine blizzard basically uh destroyed the reputation of the of the daily uh the the Richard Daly machine's efficiency uh basically uh ruined the uh the reputation because if you're gonna have uh machine politics the machine has got to be efficient and the snowstorm exposed uh what was the guy's name?
	Bilan Belandich Belandic his uh his his uh go-to choice I guess uh that all the uh competing groups uh decided that uh they would uh uh endorse and so and so uh Jane Jane Byrne uh running on a kind of post daily machine ticket uh managed to uh swipe the city of Chicago away from machine politics uh the uh huge snowstorms because nothing was done.
	Uh I was driving around in the city on uh uh snow tires with chains and uh was looking at uh city workers sitting in parking lots for eight uh eight nine ten hours at a time sleeping and not doing any ploughing.
	So uh you know they had a lot to do with uh burn getting into office.
	People were really ticked off it took my dad um probably the better part of a month to dig out out of the alley so they could uh use this car.
	Yeah but you say this is the problem with municipal government.
	You say that people are ticked off but they get ticked off and sometimes they'll uh turf out the incumbent but just as often, just as often uh you know, day or two will go by they'll f a month or two will go by, they'll start to forget about it, things get back to normal and they c and they don't understand the lesson that this is teaching us.
	The government is there to do a very small number of things and and uh if it concentrates on those small core activities, there's a sporting chance it will just about be able to do them.
	If it tries to do everything it won't be won't be able to do any of them.
	That's that's by as I mentioned before the break, that's the lesson of nine eleven.
	The State Department is supposed to issue visas to foreigners who want to visit this uh this country uh it it has an incompetent uh system so it has a had a fast track visa express system for young Saudi males who were admitted to this country on joke application forms uh that nobody else would try uh try filling in on, you know, address holiday in America.
	That's you you go and look the under the Freedom of Information Act.
	Now that's one of the duties.
	That's one of the specific duties uh that you need a federal government for you don't need a federal government uh to monitor uh the uh the bake sales in grade schools which the new Food Safety Act does a Bloomberg style Food Safety Act that monitors the fat content of the muffins and cookies that are sold in grade schools from Maine to Hawaii.
	And if you have a government that tries to do some uh stuff like that, then it all you do is make it a lot easier for a guy like uh Ahmadinajad to nuke the place when his nukes are uh finally ready to fly.
	Because you're doing all kinds of stuff that you shouldn't be doing, and you're not doing the stuff uh stuff you should be doing.
	Thanks, uh thanks very much for your uh call out, but he's right to remind us that in extreme circumstances.
	You know, I'll bet one guy is cheering today, Obama.
	Because this no labels mumbo jumbo that Bloomberg, you know, when he he was the big he was the star turn at the launch of the no labels movement, you know, with the he was there swaying with the theme song and the guy's looking like the uh Kim Jong il youth chorus behind him in the t-shirts going, Imagine there's no labels.
	Uh he was the no labels guy, there was talked that the whole no labels movement was to enable uh Bloomberg to run as a can-do technocrat.
	And he can't, he's a can't do technocrat.
	If he was a can do technocrat, by the way, uh there would already be a big bunch of uh replacement towers at ground zero.
	But instead we've had a hole in the ground for ten years because he presides over a can't do city, can't do anything.
	Uh in in a in eighteen months in a depression, you could put up Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and every other iconic landmark on the New York uh skyline, but you can't put up anything in a decade on Mayor Bloomberg's watch because he's useless, because he's a can't do he's the he's the can do technocrat.
	Uh but the guy who's chairing all this is Obama.
	Because if there had been a no labels candidacy uh in two thousand and twelve by some guy like Bloomberg, it would have taken all those mushy centrists, the mushy centrist votes would have all come from the Democrat side of the ledger.
	All the people who who voted for Mr. Transformative hopey changey post partisan healer stuff uh and then realized they were going to get clobbered with an economy that was never going to recover, they would have been the ones attracted uh uh attracted to m uh Bloomberg as no labels.
	So the guy who's cheering this snowfall like nobody else is uh Barack Obama.
	Mark Stein, InfoRush on the EIB network 1800-28282.
	Mark Stein for Rush live from uh Northern New Hampshire for the first time in human history.
	Uh let's go to Natalie in Phoenix, Arizona, where they're where they're I take it they're not clobbered by snow.
	Uh Natalie Oh uh d Mr. Snorley, Mr. Snodley, where does Natalie come on Russia's top ten list of favorite uh women?
	Oh, number three.
	Wow, I don't think I've ever had a top three call, one of Russia's uh top three uh favorite ladies' names.
	I'd I think I'd go along with it.
	Certainly top five.
	Natalie, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with.
	Well Mark, how are you?
	I'm doing great.
	How are you?
	I'm good.
	Um Mark?
	I wanted to tell you that I just bought a house last year, a brand new home.
	Right.
	And I got the eight thousand dollars tax credit.
	Now when you say the eight thousand dollar tax credit, that's this uh that's that was given to you by King Barack the Municifer and Munificent, right.
	Right.
	And this is his thing, by the way.
	We we used to have tax cuts, but now we have tax credits, which are little rewards by the government for living your life according to how the government wants you to live it.
	So they wanted you the government wanted you to buy a house.
	So they gave you an eight thousand dollar tax credit, right?
	Correct.
	And you bought a house with it.
	I did.
	And yes, well, I just received a letter from the Internal Revenue Service telling me if I lose my house within the next three years, I have to pay back the eight thousand dollars.
	Really?
	And this so in other words, the eight thousand dollar tax credit, and then say you l lose your job, so you can't keep up with the home payments, so they foreclose, they take the house away from you, and you still have to repay the eight thousand the so-called eight thousand dollar tax credit, uh, it turns out to uh turns turns out to be in effect the equivalent of borrowing money from a loan shark in a dark alley in one of the scuzzier parts of Phoenix.
	Correct, Mark.
	And The thing is, Mark, is that in order for me to buy this house, I had to come out of my pocket with twenty-eight thousand dollars, six twenty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars prior to buying the house.
	So that came out of my friend's four oh one K. Because I had I I didn't have that kind of money.
	Right, right.
	So you know So in in effect, and did you know from the IRS beforehand, by the way, that that uh under the terms of this so-called tax credit, which doesn't actually seem to operate like a tax credit, but under the terms of this eight thousand dollar payment, you would be liable for that even if you lost your home with the and no mark.
	And did you say no ideal?
	And this and this is within a three-year period, in other words, is it?
	Exactly, Mark.
	I've only been in the house a year.
	I just got the letter this week from the Internal Revenue Service telling me within the next three years, if I lose the house, I have to pay the back the eight thousand dollars.
	And I'm like hell, I was like devastated, Mark.
	I'm like, this is unbelievable.
	Well, you know, you know what uh what it is.
	That's because it's the same as the Nanny Bloomberg thing when you when you accept uh the whole principle about these tax credits, which as I said, are not uh on uh I I believe in tax cuts.
	I believe the government should take less of your income because it spends too much.
	But instead, uh nobody talks about tax cuts anymore, and wily politicians like Barack Obama talk about tax credits.
	These are little rewards given to you for living your life the way Barack Obama wants you to.
	And then when you when you when you agree to bring your life into alignment with Barack Obama's wishes, uh there are always strings attached.
	Uh because you're not a citizen any longer, you're a subject.
	You're a subject of King Barack the Munificent, and when he writes his check to you for eight thousand dollars, you should always flip it over and read the s you know all the small print they want put uh John Edwards, bless his little heart, uh when he wanted his credit card reform, uh said it was unfair that there was all the small print on the visa and master card statement.
	You know, you go out and you run up a big bunch of money on your MasterCard, and then they send you this bill at the end of the month.
	I mean, where does it say anything about that?
	It's like you're expected to repay it.
	Uh where where was that?
	And so he was going to require that the credit card companies had to put it on the back of the card in large print, and you would have your credit card uh would be uh would be basically four foot by four foot and you'd be walking with a limp, but it would have all the information on the back of it, uh telling you about all these various strings.
	Now you're saying you got eight thousand dollars from the government of the United States of America and you had no clue about any of these strings until you get some threatening letter from from the IRS.
	Yes, and and the big and as it goes, Mark, when you buy the house, you have to put it you have to fill out all these different tax forms.
	You have to send them in.
	That's in order for you to get the the the rebate, whatever you want to call it.
	And then I get this letter from them saying if I lose the house I gotta pay it back, and I'm like, they're so full of crap, it's not even funny.
	Oh well, no, they're not.
	That's that's the thing.
	That's the thing, Natalie.
	They can't they can't plow they can't plow Broadway, they can't plow Fifth Avenue, but you can bet your bottom dollar that you're in the system now and uh if when they want to, they'll be coming for their eight thousand dollars any time they want to.
	You can you can bet that that will stay in the system.
	Hey, thank thanks for your call, Natalie.
	I gotta uh run and take an EIB profit uh center break because we do not want to depend on federal government tax credits here, the Rush Limbaugh show.
	But this gets to the heart of this this whole tax credit nonsense.
	Uh that that uh that the idea that these are just simple ways of accessing credit, as they would be if you went to the first national bank at Dead Skunk Junction.
	No, it's far worse.
	It's more complicated when you go when you go uh to borrow money from the government, it is about bringing your life into ideological alignment.
	And the terms for that will always be more onerous than if you just go and get a loan from the first national bank at Dead Skunk Junction.
	1800, 282-2882, Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
	Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
	Mayor Bloomberg isn't taking this uh what's happening to his city uh lying down.
	Well, he may be Lying down, but he's uh he's determined now that he wants to hold an investigation to see why the cleanup effort is not proceeding as expeditiously as it should have.
	So you may look out of the window, you may look out of the window and you won't see a plow truck, you won't see a snow plow coming down the street, but you may uh see the uh n New York Metropolitan Agency of Bureaucratic Investigation coming down the seat coming down the street uh to determine why the uh cleanup hasn't proceeded as efficiently as it might be.
	They may not know how to plow the street, but they certainly know how to conduct an inter investigation into why they haven't been able to uh to plow the street.
	Uh they they uh they say, by the way, that it's because b because some of these drivers only went to school for two weeks instead of going for a month to snow plow school.

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