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Dec. 30, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 30, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein, honored to be here.
No supporting paperwork.
But under the terms of the Dream Act, I do get to attend the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies at the in-state tuition rate.
We're coming to you live from uh Ice Station EIB, the newest EIB studio in far northern Grafton County, New Hampshire.
Uh the workhorse of the Granite States Northern Forest.
This is about as far as you can go and still be in the United States.
And if it works well, uh maybe uh maybe for Monday we'll we'll sneak across the border uh into the province of Quebec and uh and perform an illegal hate crime by broadcasting the show live from the Dominion of Canada.
Uh it all seemed to go well yesterday.
I mean, uh technically uh, of course, uh content-wise, I thought uh the show was pretty much a bust, but that's uh my fault.
But it was a technological marvel, uh, given that communications-wise, electrical-wise, telephonic-wise, uh Grafton County is pretty much like Baghdad outside the green zone.
So uh so we're gonna try and uh uh do uh as uh technologically efficient a program today.
Mr. Snerdley is at EIB Southern Command.
Mike is in Bloomberg devastated New York holding the uh entire operation together.
Uh so if it all goes down, he is my disco mega mix version of Marshmallow World all fired up, ready to go in case we need to cut to music for an uh for an hour or three.
Uh New York is like uh uh that film the day after.
I don't know where that that's what it was called, uh, I think the day after, uh, with Randy Quaid, in which uh I don't want to give away any plot here, but uh a speech on climate change by Dick Cheney brings on flash freezing uh of the entire uh uh Western hemisphere, including Manhattan.
Uh and and and what happened uh to New York is uh like a variation on that.
We're basically a speech on trans fats by Nanny Bloomberg brought on the flash freezing of Manhattan and the outer boroughs, and they're still uh got tremendous problems uh down there and an interesting glimpse of the difference between big government's ambitions and its capabilities.
Uh so we'll get into a bit of that.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, by the way, a best of rush for New Year's Eve.
I'm gonna be here Monday, and uh Rush returns live on Tuesday to kick off a brand new year of excellence in broadcasting.
Uh but for our last live show of the year, we are offering an exciting new experimental format.
Two guest hosts Thursday.
Not just one guest host, but two, because the great Walter E. Williams, the guest host of guest hosts, uh, will join me uh later on today's show, and we're gonna talk about his uh new book.
Uh uh the guest host of guest hosts, uh Walter E. Williams will join me later.
Exciting news, the White House is taking steps to prevent photos of a shirtless President Obama on vacation in Hawaii, getting out to the outside world.
They can't prov.
I don't I don't know.
Uh I don't know, uh Mr. Snerdley, because like two years ago they were thrilled by the pictures of the shirtless President Obama.
Do you remember that?
They were all on all the magazine covers.
His uh beautifully sculpted torso imerging from the Hawaiian surf uh like uh like uh hitherto undiscovered uh Pacific atolls emerging from the seas after he'd he'd fulfilled his promise to lower the ocean levels.
Uh and uh uh that time Barack Obama uh uh shirtless was uh was all over the magazine covers.
But now apparently it's the most serious thing, it's far more serious than this WikiLeaks stuff, which Robert Robert Gibbs says, you know, the global superpower doesn't matter if you leak all our diplomatic and military uh secrets, what's the big deal?
But you can't leak.
You're not allowed to leak any pictures of President Obama shirtless.
Uh they don't want that uh apparently that's not the image they're trying to project of the President anymore.
No shirt, no shoes, no stimulus.
Uh he's gonna he's gonna keep his shirt on.
America has lost its shirt, but Barack Obama still has his shirt.
Uh and uh what what's the bumper sticker say?
Shirt happens.
That's President Obama.
Shirt happens.
Uh so he's gonna be keeping his shirt on.
Speaking of fabulously hot fabulously hot bodies.
Uh today is the start of the uh Saudi Arabian most beautiful goat of the year competition.
Uh oh no, actually yesterday it was.
I don't know why we were wasting our time dealing with uh s snow stricken New York when it was the first day of the Saudi Arabian uh most beautiful goat of the year competition beginning in uh beginning in Mecca.
The uh Fowsi Al Subi says that over one hundred and seventy goats uh competing this year for the coveted title of most beautiful goat of the year.
I think I mentioned this last year, but my very favorite of the of the Saudi Arabian most beautiful goat uh of the year winners in recent years, my favorite is the uh the 2008 most beautiful uh goat award uh who uh was a Damascene goat.
Beautiful Damascus with really cute ears, and the beautiful uh Reuters had a beautiful picture of this goat with all the Saudi men standing around really, you know, admiring, looking at this goat uh the way uh the way Julian Assange looks at Swedish women, or the way Julian Assange used to look at Swedish women uh before they uh they arrested him for uh whatever it was not wearing a condom.
Uh but anyway, this goat, uh this Damascene goat, these Saudi guys are certainly giving her the eye.
She is one smoking hot goat, a Damase goat uh by the name of Carr.
Carr, Q A H R. Baby You Can Drive My Car, as the goat herds of Riyadh like to say.
So if we get any uh late breaking developments on the uh most beautiful goat of the year competition in Saudi Arabia, uh we will certainly bring it to you.
There she is, Miss Beautiful Saudi goat of the year.
It's uh it's it's uh far more wholesome competition than what we decadent infidels do uh putting uh putting our ladies into swimsuits.
I don't know what they do for the talent round, actually.
I think um certainly this uh this Damascene goat could s I I'm confident would certainly be capable of uh twirling a bat on while uh tap dancing uh to uh to uh what would she be?
What would she I don't know what she'd be tap dancing to out in uh out in uh Riyadh probably McCon I don't think the goat has to do an essay contest, but I do think they have to twirl the baton and tap dance to MacArthur Park or whatever whatever it is.
Uh anyway, uh we will we will keep you in touch with the goat competition.
Now the snow, the snow story yesterday.
The the New York Post has an incredible uh ha has an incredible story today.
Uh yesterday I was I was going on about the uh Bloomberg and the failed cleanup in New York.
The how uh how pathetic it was.
Not just pathetic, but a total failure of government.
We don't really need government uh to do ninety per cent of the stuff it claims to do.
We don't need it to do ninety percent of the stuff it regulates, ninety percent of the stuff it sticks its nose into.
But it would be nice.
It would be nice when you get a big snowfall.
If they could just do uh a little bit of snow clearing so that you're capable of getting out of your house, driving to work, and uh doing your job and doing your bit to keep uh a first world economy functioning.
Uh but they couldn't do that in New York City.
In Mayor Bloomberg's New York, they couldn't do that.
And there were a lot of excuses offered.
And I got email stuff after the show from various websites on the pansy left.
By the way, by the way, the pansy left, that's not a cheap insult.
Uh that's a literary uh quotation.
George Orwell, the great George Orwell uh used to uh used to call him the Pansy Left.
Uh and so that's a literary quotation.
I mentioned that if you happen to be that guy on MSNBC who uh didn't know who C. S. Lewis was when uh Sarah Palin said she liked to read C. S. Lewis.
And uh who was the guy?
What was the guy's name?
Richard Wolf on MSNBC was sneering at uh at Sarah Palin because he had no idea that uh that uh C. S. Lewis wrote anything other than those Narnia books.
So in other words, this this is by the way, is how the Pansy Left thinks.
Uh there the proof the proof of Sarah Palin's stupidity is that she cites authors that they haven't read.
So ipso facto Sarah Palin must be totally stupid if an esteemed commentator on MSNBC has never heard of the authors she cited.
That's how stupid Sarah Palin is.
This is the way the Pansy Left think.
Anyway, the Pansy Left were mocking me for what I uh was saying on uh uh on the show yesterday.
So this uh this guy Stein on the Rush Limbaugh show was complaining because they hadn't cleared up the snow in New York on his time schedule.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
It turns out it's not that.
It's turns out it's not that.
From the New York Post, the Sanitation Department's slow snow cleanup was a budget protest.
Selfish sanitation department bosses from the snow slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts.
A disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency service vehicles, the Post had learned.
Miles of roads stretching from as north as Whitestone Queens to the south shore of Staten Island still remained treacherously unplowed last night because of the shameless job action.
Several sources and a city lawmaker said, which was over a raft of demotions and budget cuts.
This is just so we understand what the New York Post is saying here, the Sanitation Department, the department that is supposed to remove the snow in the case of a snowfall in New York, deliberately sabotage the snow removal.
This is your government public sector union at work here, folks.
They deliberately sabotage the snow removal to protest budget cuts and emotions in the department.
Oh well, what's the big deal?
You know, there's no better time to to hold a uh a protest uh than when you have a big snowfall.
I mentioned this story yesterday.
A baby had to be delivered inside the lobby of a Brooklyn apartment building.
Because, despite repeated calls to 911, first responders, first responders couldn't get to her for nine hours.
The baby's mother is a twenty-two-year-old college senior, now recovering at hospital.
Her newborn baby was pronounced dead ten hours after the first 911 call from what uh the New York Daily News describes as the bloody vestibule on Brooklyn Avenue in Crown Heights.
No one could get to her because Crown Heights was not plowed.
And we now learn that this was not because of meteorological devastation, but because a diseased depraved, corrupt, decadent public sector union decided to use the snowfall to protest uh an attempted rollback at its disgusting, bloated, unaffordable, kleptocrat uh privileges.
Uh in other words, this baby is dead because of the sanitation department of the city of New York.
Uh Yvonne Freeman, 75, is dead because of the sanitation department of the city of New York.
She also uh woke up having trouble breathing, called 911, uh, but first responders couldn't get through because the sanitation department to protest that it's some of its perks and privileges were having to be rolled back because in case they hadn't noticed, there's been a little ity bitsy bit of an economic downturn the last couple of years.
The sanitation department decided to use this snowfall uh as an opportunity to demonstrate its political muscle.
So they demonstrated their political muscle, and this newborn baby is dead in uh Brooklyn, uh, and Yvonne Freeman, 75 is dead.
Uh and uh they're dead because of the New York City Sanitation Department.
This is a fascinating lesson, not just in the incompetence of big government, uh, but in what happens when bloated depraved public sector unions grow so big uh that not even the minimal civic decencies can be expected of them anymore.
Uh we'll talk about that uh in the hours ahead.
It is also the last live show of the year, and as I mentioned, Walter Williams will be joining us.
But we'll be looking back at some of the event of this year too.
But I also want to look ahead uh as to what we really need to do to address some of the big structural problems of which uh New York City and its incompetent mayor and its depraved sanitation department are uh such a fine example, some of the structural problems that the United States of America faces in the years ahead.
Uh but we'll look back at 2010 and ahead to 2011, and uh, if you have some solutions for these structural problems, by the way, so it's not all doom and gloom as we wring out the old, but we also ring in the new with some optimistic perky can-do solutions, because that's the American way before we got seized up by the New York City Sanitation Department.
If you've got some can-do solutions, we'll get to those two.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for Rush on the last EIB live Rush Limbaugh Show of the Year.
Mark Stein in for Rush, the last live Rush Limbaugh show of the year.
The year began with the amazing election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, which was uh uh uh just on the anniversary of uh uh of uh on the on the eve of Barack Obama's first uh anniversary in office uh and and and it ended with this uh so-called lame duck session in which uh Senator Brown uh went from being the uh the hero of the uh the the Massachusetts uh election,
uh the man who snaffled away Ted Kennedy's seat from the Democratic Party into a guy who morphed by the end of the year into the usual sort of reach across the aisle type and had uh passed a bunch of this stuff with the uh w with the help of various other moderate Republicans to to uh to to to lard up the lame duck session and make it what the president called the most productive uh lame duck session in history.
And it's an interesting lesson that in uh in in the gray morning after the uh electoral hopes of the night before.
Uh what I loved about the Scott Brown election, by the way, was the uh President Obama's speech.
Remember, he flew in, uh I think it was the day before the election, uh, to uh to to to boost up Martha Coakley's campaign.
She was the party hack who was running for the Democrats in Massachusetts, and in any other scenario, she would have just swept in and taken Ted Kennedy's seat and held it until, you know, uh Joseph Patrick, Patrick Joseph Kennedy uh uh uh Lawford Brown III had been eligible to take over Ted Kennedy's uh seat when he uh when he reached the age of twelve, or however old you have to be to be a senator in Massachusetts.
Uh and uh so Barack Obama flies in and he's mocking, he's standing there next to John Kerry giving a speech to a private school in Massachusetts filled mainly with out-of-state students, because by that point nobody in Massachusetts wanted to see Barack Obama.
And he's going, uh, you know, forget the pickup truck, uh forget forget the ads.
Everybody can run ads, says President Obama.
Forget the truck.
Everybody can buy a truck.
What was fascinating about this was that he assumed Scott Brown's pickup truck was a prop.
Uh, you remember like the herd of cows that Al Gore rented uh to provide a pastoral backdrop when he launched his first presidential campaign back, what was it, 1992, he rented a bunch of cows, because like his Tennessee farm, he basically is a slum landlord there.
He doesn't do a lot of farming, but he wanted it to look like a working farm.
So he rented a herd of cows to stand beside him when he launched his presidential campaign.
And this is what Obama assumed uh that Scott Brown had done.
He'd just decided it would look good for him.
He'd look rugged if he campaigned in a pi in a pickup truck.
Uh and so he just sort of acquired a pickup truck as a kind of prop as an image.
In fact, it's his truck and he had 200,000 miles on it.
Uh but it but uh and and then even better than that, there was uh what was that guy?
Howard Feynman, he was the uh I think he at that time he was the chief political correspondent of Newsweek.
Uh and he took it a step further.
He didn't think the truck was any old prop, but he thought it was uh a kind of racial code.
Uh and he said, you know, oh well there are codes about these things.
And pickup trucks, there's a racial aspect to it one way or another.
So that Scott Brown having a pickup truck uh was his w was his way of signaling to all the uh Q Klux Klan supporters in Massachusetts, of which there were millions, uh, that that uh he's on their side and and uh when he when he backs the truck up uh into his garage uh at night, he likes to get on the old clan hood, uh just like Robert C. Bird did.
Uh so these guys are saying, oh, it's not a Truck he uses to get from A to B. It's a racial, it's some kind of racial code he's signaling to notorious Massachusetts racist voters.
And this is really the difference in America now.
This is the administration we have ended up with.
The world is divided into two people.
There are people who think uh that a pickup truck is a useful vehicle for transporting uh heavy-duty goods from A to B, and there are those who think that a pickup truck is coded racism.
Uh and unfortunately, the administration is full of people who think the latter.
And it gets to the heart of what's the problem with these guys.
They do nothing.
They th words to them are just metaphors.
Words to them are abstractions.
Words to them are generalities, because this is an administration packed with men, starting with the president, starting with the Treasury Secretary, all the way down, who have never actually done anything.
Uh this is an administration that is desperately short of doers, and that is why it is so disconnected uh from the men and women who drive the business growth of America.
Yeah, great to be with you for the last live Rush show of the year.
We'll have best of rush tomorrow.
Don't forget, Rush returns for another year of excellence and broadcasting this Tuesday, uh, this Tuesday.
And just to pick up that point I was talking about uh Barack Obama and these guys, uh uh everyone in his administration, they are not doers.
They are not doers.
They're thinkers.
They're people who like to sit around and talk and think.
Uh they uh Obama, Timothy Geidner, these guys, they come from the the same world.
Uh the the world of the Ivy Leagues, of uh so-called non-profit organizations of government activism, where your progress is lubricated uh by your access to government.
And these people think of themselves, the b nobody in this administration has any experience of creating a dime of wealth in the private sector.
None of them.
Uh and uh they've less experience in business than any American administration of the last century.
Uh but what they are great at doing is like sitting around and uh thinking big thoughts, like uh whichever one it was in the Wizard of Oz who said, if I only had a brain.
Well, who was that?
Was the Tin Man, Nacadley Lion was the heart, tin man was the scarecrow, scarecrow.
That's the the scarecrow.
They're all sitting around like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz of the Oh, the thought uh with the thoughts I'd be thinking I could be another Lincoln if I only had a brain.
These guys think they're Lincoln because they sit around thinking and they forget that Lincoln was the rail splitter.
He actually did stuff.
He did stuff, he was a doer.
And Americans are doers.
Americans are doers, uh, but they have a ruling class that uh like to sit around like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz thinking big important thoughts that aren't actually that big and important.
They think they're a meritocracy, by the way.
That's the words you hear all the time.
A meritocracy is actually worse than an aristocra aristocracy, because aristocrats tend to at least somewhere deep down have a little bit of guilt because they know uh in some in some uh deeply problematic way that they inherited their greatness.
Whereas meritocrats think they deserve to rule, and so they rule much more heavy-handedly.
You look at Bloomberg in New York or Obama, these guys think they're geniuses.
They think they deserve to tell you what to do because they're actually better than you.
But they're not meritocrats.
Meritocracy, by the way, was this term invented by uh a British sociologist in the 1950s for a satire, uh, I think he wrote about 1958, Michael Young.
He wrote it uh uh as a satire on Britain in the future ruled by what he called meritocracy.
And he vented invented this word.
And like all these satirical parodic joke terms, the left took it up for real.
You know, brainstrust uh that FDR introduced uh when he uh FDR decided he was going to have government by brains trust.
He was going to get all the brainy people to form a brains trust, uh, and they would tell us uh make the decisions on how we should live.
That was another term invented by a joke in uh some guy writing for a newspaper in Marion, Ohio in the eighteen nineties, uh the time all the trust busting was getting underway, and he said, since everybody else is uh tending to trusts and monopolies, why don't we have a brain's trust too?
And like everything else, like meritocracy, like brains trust, j terms that were invented as satirical jokes, the left took up and applied them for real.
So now we have a government trust, a government brains trust, a monopoly of ideas, uh formed by people who think they are meritocrats, but are not, are actually a conformocrat, a conformicrat ruling class that has never actually done anything.
And it's killing the United States of America.
And uh what what does it mean practically?
It means that all these guys sitting around like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz with the thoughts I'd be thinking I could be another Lincoln.
Instead of actually getting on and doing anything like Lincoln did, uh these guys sit around issuing uh issuing rules on trans fats and the amount of salt in food and then and then when the snowfalls, like Bloomberg, they can't clear the street because th they their depraved decadent public sector work uh union that metastasized while they were having all their big important thoughts decides that a heavy snowfall is a great day uh to hold a public protest.
So this our ruling class is not a meritocracy.
It's not a meritocracy.
It's people who are isolated from the rhythms of American life.
A guy like Timothy Geithner uh thinks he can he can govern a trillion dollar, a multi trillion dollar economy.
What makes him think that?
This guy has never created a dime of wealth in his life.
The skill set required uh to run a million dollar company i is is relatively rare.
But there are a lot of people in the United States and around the planet who can do it.
The skill set required to run a billion dollar company is rarer still and very, very few people manage to do that.
But the skill set required to to to organize regulate and centrally direct a multi trillion dollar economy is unknown to human history.
And yet Timothy Geitner, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Harry Reed, people who have never done anything never created a dime of wealth.
John Kerry, a man whose only business experience was a sleeping partner in a donut stand in Boston for about six months.
These people think they are capable of centrally directing a multi-trillion dollar economy.
No such skill set uh is known to man uh but uh but a complacent conformicrat ruling class uh that that uh now pr straddles the American economy that in fact has the American economy under its boot uh thinks that it can do that and until they get out of the way this economy isn't going to recover.
Let us go to Bob in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Bob, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It is great to have you with us.
Hi Mark, how are you doing?
I'm doing good all things considered.
Ha how are you?
Looking forward to twenty eleven?
Uh well uh yeah it's gotta be better in twenty ten.
Oh thank you don't say that it doesn't have to be better than twenty ten.
It could be way worse.
Oh I hope not.
You're we're you're talking about the uh that that poor baby that died in New York and also just an old old lady died also.
Yes that's right.
Well I was thinking uh the New York City sanitation department is merely just the forefront of Obamacare.
Because uh seems to me unborn babies and old people don't have a lot of sway in the new system.
So you reckon perform so you you reckon the New York City Department of Sanitation is basically just the forerunner of the Obamacare death panel.
It's like the pilot program for the Obamacare death panel.
They kind of skipped the cow point.
That's uh th that's right you're that's true.
Basically the guys in the sanitation department decided that uh this baby didn't uh need to live it's a uh it may not be a woman's right to choose but it's the sanitation department's right to choose and likewise uh likewise this seventy five year old woman who died uh yeah okay that's great it's the Obamacare death panel pilot program.
That's a that's a good way of looking at it, Bob.
Hey thanks for your call.
Yeah, yeah.
And best and best of uh best of luck with twenty eleven because it as you when you say it can't be worse than twenty ten.
Oh yes it can.
Let's go to Sherry uh also in Florida calling from Jacksonville.
Sherry you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey thanks for taking my call.
Um I have a a cheery solution.
Why don't we take the Tea Party movement or some organization of that sort and take all these unemployed people, put them together with uh with people who have skills, exchange skills, and start from the ground up, sort of cottage industry and rebuild our economy.
I don't know about you, but I am so tired of buying this crap that I it's destroyed in less than six months.
I'm wasting money.
I need some American made, decent, solid products.
You're absolutely you're absolutely right on that.
One of one of the problems with uh with the the structural deformity of the American economy uh is that we di we spend too much money diverting people into entirely worthless occupations of which the first couple uh are a very good example of that.
They the president uh uh was the beneficiary of a a million dollar education he went to an elite Hawaiian prep school he went to Occidental he went to Columbia he went to Harvard law and in the end he becomes a community organizer.
His wife had a similarly privileged education and became a three hundred and fifty thousand dollar a year diversity co uh consultant at the University of Chicago hospital a job so necessary that when she resigned to become first lady they didn't even bother replacing her.
And too much there's there's too much of that.
Until we actually get back to to creating and making uh making and creating uh our economy divert into these these wasteful nothing occupations the more we're just basically causing the whole country to seize up.
Well I see everyone's waiting to get a job.
Well if you keep waiting there may not be a job.
I think we have to actually take it by the horns and make jobs.
You're you're you're right, Sherry, but I would add this I would add this caution uh that that that that it is very difficult.
New York is which we were talking about yesterday is a good example of that of this, but so is California, so is Illinois, so is Maryland, so is almost any blue state it's very difficult to just say, hey, hey I'm unemployed so now I can sit around in my living room and finally uh start doing start the small business,
home business that I've always wanted to do, because the amount of regulation uh that states impose on you uh in somewhere like uh in somewhere like New York uh and in a lot of other states is so huge that every little thing if if you think of the most basic simple thing you want to do, everyone's always said uh hey you m you you make uh you make a great homemade mustard so maybe you'll you'll go and buy a uh two hundred jars and you'll put mustard in the jars and sell them or whatever.
Everything you want to do, everything a self-reliant w citizen wants to do a depraved government uh staffed by people the same kind of people who staff the New York City Sanitation Department to throws a ton of regulatory burdens on you to prevent you doing it.
So you're you're right Sherry that people should do that.
But the reality is that uh a lot of in a lot of states you can only do that in the black market now.
You can't do it in the in the in the clean light of day because the government will just regulate the hell out of you.
So I I think you're right there.
But at the same time you got to go to City Hall and tell these people uh stop regulating the hell out of everything I want to do.
That's that's necessary for your solution to work, Sherry.
I agree with that because I have several companies one of them is a cosmetic manufacturing company and we're regulated to death but it's it it can be done.
It's just fifty hoops and hurdles and you know if you have several people and they want to maybe pull the money to get the to get through it you can get through it.
We've got to start producing I I you cannot buy a decent product.
It's it's um it's disheartening and I would pay more for something that would last for more than a year.
But it isn't available even if you search online it just isn't out there.
So maybe if the government wants to do something productive they can um they can help small businesses actually be productive instead of trying to tear us apart.
Well I wish you I wish you uh I wish you well with that Sherry uh but don't start saying things I I disagree with you to this extent don't start saying things oh I'd be prepared to pay more for this and I'd be prepared to pay more for that the only reason that people have to be prepared to pay more for American products is because of the burden uh that the United States government and state governments and in many cases city governments impose on the cost of employing people and creating Wealth in this country.
Somebody sent me an email yesterday saying, oh well, you know, oh well, you know, you had that Congressman on yesterday, and he said with American uh corporation tax uh that uh it imposes a 35% uh it's equivalent to putting a 35% tariff on our own goods.
This was Congressman Gomert's point.
Uh and this guy says, well, the 35% uh uh ta uh tax only applies to profits, so it's not really a 35% tariff on our own goods.
But no, no, no, let's look at this in first principles.
Congressman Gomert was saying that you get taxed 35% on prof uh on profits in the United States of America.
That's three times as high as many countries that we think of as socialist basket cases.
As I said uh yesterday, it's 12.5% in Ireland.
So we tax corporations 35% on profits.
What's the upshot of that?
What's the upshot of that?
It's that no corporation wants to make any profit.
Small corporations, small corporations spend the f in their final meetings with their accountants every year and their lawyers every year, uh starting, you know, September, October, November, they all sit around figuring out how to reduce their profits by by uh by buying this or doing that, uh so they don't have to give 35% of their profits uh to the United States government.
In other words, they're making business decisions not on what's necessary to grow their business or in the interest of the broader economy, but in avoiding the punitive taxation of government.
Government massively distorts economic activity in this country, and until it stops doing that, uh our economy is uh our economy is going to be remain mired in this trough.
Uh so you're right.
We need to just uh get together, use skills, uh create wealth, but we also need to give gov we need to sock government in the jaw and get it out the way, because we're propping up too big, too big, too bloated a government that is actually choking the arteries of wealth creation in this country.
Mark Stein in Forush, more in a moment.
Mark Stein, in for rush, in for rush on the uh EIB uh network, uh talking about, you know, the structural problems that are uh afflict America and the United States.
Here's the view from the left.
Uh the liberal radio host Tom Hartman, I think I was on his show when my book came uh a book came out.
Don't think we sold a lot of copies.
I think I think we sold two copies, and one guy returned them, and the other one was from a public library, I think.
Uh but he's got this uh he's got this new theory that Ritalin is turning our children into conservatives.
He's his this is this would be beautiful if it was true that uh his theory is that the schools by medicating so many American children by diagnosing them with ADD and pumping them full of Ritalin are turning them into conservatives.
That Ritalin m medicating children with Ritalin turns them into conservatives.
His thing is that the dopamine receptor gene is the so-called liberal gene, what which he calls the Thomas Edison gene, by the way, because he thinks this is the gene that's uh that stimulates creativity and thinking outside the box and everything.
And what I uh find interesting about that is that Thomas Edison, of course, uh invented the incandescent light bulb, the great iconic American invention of the nineteenth century.
Uh and what did liberals do to Edison's great uh invention?
Uh they banned it in favor of the stupid thing you see now uh sticking out from the bottom of your sha every chandelier, the uh the the twirly uh environmentally friendly light bulb that looks like uh yogurt-coated curly fries and uh and cause you all the uh kinds of health problems and give that spectral gloom uh the to uh to see by.
So you can't read any like you say, maybe I'll sit up in bed tonight and read a nice right-wing book by a guy like Mark Stein, and you can't see because of the spectral gloom because the liberals, instead of defending their so-called Thomas Edison liberal gene, actually banned Edison's iconic uh iconic invention.
But Tom Hartman is now saying uh that the reason we have a shortage uh uh a shortage of uh uh dynamism, Edison type dynamism is because we're medicating our kids into conformist conservatives by pumping them full of Ritalin.
You know, that's an interesting theory, Tom.
That's a fascinating theory.
Who runs the American American school system?
Who has presided over this vast uh industrial scale medication system?
Who who medicates all these kids?
Liberals do.
Mark Stein in Farush, more in a moment.
The New York City Sanitation Department that uh didn't clear the street, so the baby died and the old lady died.
Uh they managed to clear the street in front of the home of their head guy, John Doherty, in Staten Island, New York.
He got plowed, the baby died, the old lady died because they decided to stage an industrial protest.
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